noun
Meaning 1
A waiter or waitress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard, rare
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Standard Lemma guide
waitron
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noun
Meaning 2
A robotic or mechanical waiter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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History
Etymology
Coined as a gender-neutral substitute for waiter and waitress, this is one of the few words with the gender-neutral suffix -ron to have seen much use, probably re-inforced by rhyming with patron. (Some references instead analyse it as using the same "machinelike" suffix -tron as waitron (“mechanical waiter”), but more likely it uses -ron like laundron and like waiter and waitress use -er/-ress not *-ter/*-tress.)
Etymology tree English waiter Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)bor. English -tron English waitron From waiter + -tron.