violator

English

Alternative forms

• violater

Etymology

violate +‎ -or

Noun

violator (plural violators)

1. One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
2. In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.

Translations

one who violates

• Bulgarian: нарушител (bg) (narušitel)
• German: Verletzer m, Zuwiderhandelnder m, Täter (de) m, Übertreter (des Gesetzes) m, Vergewaltiger (de) m
• Japanese: 違反者 (ihansha), 侵害者 (shingaisha)
• Macedonian: нару́шител m (narúšitel), нару́шувач m (narúšuvač), прекр́шител m (prekŕšitel)
• Persian: متخلف (fa) (motexallef), خلافکار (fa) (xalâfkâr), خاطی (fa) (xâti)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯i.oˈlaː.tor/, [u̯iɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.oˈla.tor/, [vioˈläːt̪or]

Etymology 1

violō +‎ -tor

Noun

violātor m (genitive violātōris); third declension

1. injurer, profaner, violator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	violātor	violātōrēs
Genitive	violātōris	violātōrum
Dative	violātōrī	violātōribus
Accusative	violātōrem	violātōrēs
Ablative	violātōre	violātōribus
Vocative	violātor	violātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: violador
• French: violateur
• Galician: violador
• Italian: violatore
• Portuguese: violador
• Spanish: violador

Etymology 2

Verb

violātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of violō

References

• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• violator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French violateur.

Noun

violator m (plural violatori)

1. rapist
2. violator

Declension

Declension of violator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) violator	violatorul	(niște) violatori	violatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) violator	violatorului	(unor) violatori	violatorilor
vocative	violatorule		violatorilor