perpetuator

English

Etymology

From perpetuate +‎ -or.

Noun

perpetuator (plural perpetuators)

1. One who perpetuates.
   • 1977 April 30, Dai Thompson, “Conntact”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

     Pornography, a business many feel may be the essence and perpetuator of so many straight men's need to prove their masculinity by abusing women.

   • 2005, Robert Spencer, The myth of Islamic tolerance:

     Thus, by the end of the twentieth century, Christian scholars of Islam had become the unwitting guardians and perpetuators of the myth of Islamic tolerance.

Latin

Verb

perpetuātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of perpetuō