Word origin
[1650–60; ‹ NL, L: moldiness, equiv. to
mūc(
ēre) to be moldy or musty +
-or -or1]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burlesque, cardholder, parade, parameter, pony-or is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, directly or through Anglo-French,usually denoting a condition or property of things or persons, sometimes correspondingto qualitative adjectives ending in -id (ardor; honor; horror; liquor; pallor; squalor; torpor; tremor); a few other words that originally ended in different suffixes have been assimilatedto this group (behavior; demeanor; glamour)