plaintiff

English

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Etymology

From Middle English plaintif, from Old French plaintif (“complaining; as a noun, one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. See plaintive.

Noun

plaintiff (plural plaintiffs)

1. (law) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accusers.

Synonyms

• complainant, litigant

Antonyms

• defendant, suspect

Hypernyms

• litigant, litigator

Hyponyms

• suer, petitioner

Related terms

• plaintive

Translations

party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant

• Arabic: (indefinite) مدعٍ (ar) (mudda`in) m, (definite) المدعي (ar) (al-mudda`iy)
• Bulgarian: тъжител (bg) m (tǎžitel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. and simpl. 原告 (pinyin: yuángào)

• Czech: žalobce (cs) m
• Dutch: eiser (nl), aanklager (nl)
• Finnish: kantaja (fi)
• French: demandeur (fr), plaignant (fr) m, plaignante (fr) f
• German: Kläger (de) m
• Hebrew: המבקש (ha'mevakesh)
• Hungarian: felperes (hu)

• Icelandic: stefnandi (is) m
• Indonesian: penggugat (id)
• Interlingua: demandator
• Japanese: 原告 (げんこく genkoku)
• Polish: powód m, powódka f
• Portuguese: querelante m and f; acusação; promotoria
• Russian: истец (ru) (istéc) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: жалилац (sh) (žalilac) m
• Spanish: demandante (es); querellante (es).
• Vietnamese: nguyên cáo (vi)

External links

• plaintiff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• plaintiff in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911