nonactor

nonactor

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin āctus
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin āctorbor.
Middle English actour
English actor
English nonactor

    From non- + actor.

    Noun

    nonactor (plural nonactors)

    1. Someone who is not an actor
      • 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2021:
        I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.
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