Other forms: janitors
A janitor is the person who cleans and looks after a school building. The school janitor, ask the janitor, janitor's cupboard.
It is the American word; British English says caretaker for the school role and cleaner for the work. The Latin ianitor means a doorkeeper, from ianua, a door — and Janus, the two-faced god of doorways and beginnings, is the same root, which is where January comes from.
1nounjanitorThe person who cleans and looks after a building.
“The janitor unlocked the school gates every morning at seven.”
janitor is a worker.
Also accepted in games: caretaker, custodian
Latin ianitor means a doorkeeper, from ianua, a door. Janus and January come from the same doorway.
Latin
ianitor — doorkeeper
English, today
janitor
From Latin ianitor (“doorkeeper”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA