Pooler

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who combines money, resources, or efforts with others into a shared collection for a common purpose
2. Someone who joins with others in putting assets together into a joint fund or arrangement
3. An individual who participates in pooling by contributing to a common stock or shared pool of resources

Etymology: "Pooler" is a plain formation: the noun "pool" with the agentive suffix "-er," meaning one who pools, or a person or thing that pools something. The suffix has a long ancestry of its own. It traces back through Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Italic forms to the Latin "-arius," which denoted a person connected with something, and passed into Old English as "-ere," before becoming the Middle English and modern "-er." The base word "pool" has its own separate history, reaching English from Old French "poule" and Middle English "pol" and "poole," but the suffix is what makes "pooler" what it is. Because "-er" attaches so freely to English verbs and nouns, new agent nouns like this one can be formed on demand whenever speakers need a name for someone who performs an action.