Addresser

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who composes or sends a written or spoken message to someone else
2. An individual who is responsible for creating and dispatching an address or communication
3. Someone who writes or originates a message to be delivered to another party

Etymology: "Addresser" is a plain English formation: the noun "address" with the agent suffix "-er" attached, so it names the one who performs the act of addressing, the sender of a message. The suffix itself came into English through Middle English "-ere" and Old English "-ere," and it descends from a Latin "-ārius" that passed through Old French as "-ier." Its use is the same as in "writer" or "speaker." The base word, "address," has a far more winding history. It traces back to Latin "dīrēctus," meaning "straight" or "set right," a past participle of "dīrigere," to arrange in a line. Vulgar Latin turned this into "dīrēctiāre," which became Old French "drecier" and "adrecier," meaning to set straight or direct toward something. English borrowed the idea in the form "adressen," in Middle English, and the sense of directing a speech or letter toward a person followed naturally.

Synonyms: sender, communicator, messenger

Antonyms: receiver