Valuer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A professional responsible for estimating the financial worth of properties and other assets is known for assessing and evaluating their significance
2. An individual who specializes in determining the monetary worth of real estate or possessions
3. Someone engaged in appraising and calculating the financial value of different assets

Etymology: A valuer is, quite plainly, someone who values things, and the word is simply the noun formed by adding the agent suffix "-er" to "value". The suffix has a long pedigree: it descends through Old English "-ere" and Old French "-ier", both traceable back to Latin "-arius", which denoted a person connected with a particular occupation or task. The main interest here lies in the suffix rather than the stem. "Value" itself came into English from Old French, and "-er" was added to it in English, so the word is a mixed formation of French and Germanic elements: a Romance noun with a suffix that English had been using for agents since Old English. Many English occupational words, such as "baker" or "driver", were built the same way, so "valuer" joins a long, ordinary family of such nouns.

Synonyms: appraiser, assessor, evaluator