Word: patentors
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: pa
ten
tors
Definition: Plural of patentor; a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention
Morphemes:
Affix: patent
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: patentes lettres
Language: fro
Decoded: patentes lettres
Meaning: document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree
Affix: -or
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Creates an agent noun, indicating a person who does something.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).