English
suffocator
From suffocate + -or.
Formed from suffocate + -or
Latin suffōcō ‘to choke, stifle, strangle, suffocate, drown’
Latin suffōcātus ‘choked, stifled, strangled or suffocated’
Middle English suffocat(e) ‘deprived of air, suffocated’
English suffocate
Today it means
noun One who suffocates someone.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / suffocator