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-inator

word-forming element typically indicating "extreme; ultimate" when appended to verbs, names or titles; by 1992, likely abstracted from Terminator, the title of a popular 1984 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger went on to a political career and early -inator coinages often referred to him. See terminator (the suffix misdivides the word; the -in- belongs to the Latin stem).

Earlier Kelvinator (1916), name of a type of home refrigerator, is from William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who developed the concept of absolute zero and for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named. The name was thought appropriate for a company that manufactured ice-boxes and refrigerators.

该词起源时间:1992年