Immortalisers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Creating entities or objects that bestow eternal life or fame upon someone or something
2. Making individuals or moments memorable that they transcend mortality
3. Facilitating the preservation of memory in a way that it lasts indefinitely, escaping the grasp of time

Etymology: Its oldest ingredient is the Latin "mors," meaning death, which also gave English "mortal." Add the prefix "in-," meaning "not," and you get "immortal," from Latin "immortalis," the state of not being subject to death. English then formed the verb "immortalise" by adding the suffix "-ise," which comes from Greek through Latin and turns nouns and adjectives into verbs. The "-ise" spelling is British, and the American "-ize" is the same ending. The agent suffix "-er" names the one doing the action, so an immortaliser is literally something that makes another thing immortal, usually in the sense of lasting fame rather than literal life.