Amender

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who makes changes or corrections to a text or document
2. An individual responsible for altering or improving written content through modifications
3. One who revises or adjusts material to better suit its purpose or correctness

Etymology: The word is a plain formation: "amend" plus the agent suffix "-er," which marks someone who performs the action. The suffix has a long ancestry. It traces back through Latin "-arius," which formed nouns denoting a person connected with something, and passed into English by two routes. One came through Old English "-ere," the native form that gave us words like "baker" and "singer." The other came through Old French "-ier," which itself descended from Latin "-arius," and entered Middle English as "-er" alongside the native ending. English speakers therefore added the same ending to French-derived and native verbs alike, and both strands merged into the single suffix used today. "Amend" arrived from Old French "amender," from Latin "emendare," meaning "to free from fault." The sense of correcting a text or document grows directly from that idea of removing errors, so "amender" describes the person who removes them. Nothing about the word is unusual; it is simply the everyday tool of English for naming someone who does an action.

Synonyms: reformer, modifier, corrector, adjuster, improver