adulterer

See also: adultérer and adulterêr

English

Etymology

From adulter +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

adulterer (plural adulterers, feminine adulteress)

2. (broadly) One who commits adultery.

   Synonyms: cheater; see also Thesaurus:libertine

   2. (law, strictly) A spouse who has sex with a non-spouse.

      Coordinate term: fornicator

   • 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage‎^[1], page 22:

     Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.

   2. (nonlegal, loosely) Someone who cheats on their spouse or monogamous significant other.
   4. A male adulterer specifically.

      Coordinate term: adulteress (female counterpart)

      • 2005, The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness‎^[2], page 140:

        I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.

      • 2016, Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication‎^[3], page 110:

        The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Related terms

• adulterant

Translations

husband or wife who commits adultery

• Asturian: adúlteru m, adúltera f
• Bulgarian: прелюбодеец (preljubodeec)
• Catalan: adúlter (ca) m, adúltera (ca) f
• Czech: cizoložník (cs) m cizoložnice f
• Danish: ægteskabsbryder c, ægteskabsbryderske c (female), horkarl (da) c (male), horekarl c (male), horkone c (female), horekone f (female), horkvinde c (female), horekvinde c (female)
• Dutch: overspelige (nl)
• Esperanto: adultulo, adultulino (female), adultinto, adultintino (female)
• Finnish: avionrikkoja (fi)
• French: adultère (fr) m or f, homme adultère m, femme adultère f
• Galician: adúltero (gl) m, adúltera f
• Georgian: მრუში (mruši)
• German: Ehebrecher (de) m, Ehebrecherin (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐍉𐍂𐍃 m (hōrs)
• Greek: μοιχός (el) m (moichós), μοιχαλίδα (el) f (moichalída)

  Ancient: μοιχός m (moikhós), μοιχαλίς f (moikhalís)

• Hungarian: házasságtörő (hu)
• Indonesian: pezina
• Irish: adhaltrach m, banadhaltrach m (female)
• Italian: adultero (it) m, adultera (it) f
• Latin: adulter m or f, adultera f
• Maori: tangata pūremu, kaipūremu
• Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (gʾtʾr /⁠gâdâr⁠/)
• Norman: adultéthe m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekteskapsbryter m, ekteskapsbryterske m or f, horkar m, horkarl m, horkone m or f

  Nynorsk: ekteskapsbrytar m, ekteskapsbryterske f, horkall m, horkar m, horkone f

• Persian: زناکار (fa) (zenâkâr), زانی (fa) (zâni), پلیدکار (palidkâr)
• Polish: cudzołożnik (pl) m, cudzołożnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: adúltero (pt) m, adúltera (pt) f
• Romagnol: adùltar m, adùlter m
• Russian: прелюбоде́й (ru) m (preljubodéj), прелюбоде́йка (ru) f (preljubodéjka)
• Scottish Gaelic: adhaltraiche m, ban-adhaltraiche f
• Serbo-Croatian: préljubnīk (sh) m, préljubnica (sh) f
• Slovak: cudzoložník m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: manźelstwołamaŕ m

  Upper Sorbian: mandźelstwołamar m

• Spanish: adúltero (es) m, adúltera (es) f
• Swedish: äktenskapsbrytare (sv) c, äktenskapsbryterska (sv) c (female)
• Telugu: వ్యభిచారుడు (vyabhicāruḍu)
• Yiddish: נואף m (noyef), נואפֿטע f (noyefte)

Latin

Verb

adulterer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adulterō