-eeyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[-ee 词源字典]
word-forming element in legal English (and in imitation of it), representing the Anglo-French ending of past participles used as nouns. As these sometimes were coupled with agent nouns in -or, the two suffixes came to be used as a pair to denote the initiator and the recipient of an action.[-ee etymology, -ee origin, 英语词源]