adulteress

English

Alternative forms

• adultress

Etymology

From adulter (noun) +‎ -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead.

Pronunciation

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Noun

adulteress (plural adulteresses)

1. A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:45:

     And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.

Synonyms

• adulterer (gender-neutral)
• advoutress (obsolete)

Translations

woman or girl who commits adultery

• Arabic: زَانِيَة (ar) f (zāniya)
• Belarusian: пералю́бніца f (pjeraljúbnica), пралюбадзе́йка f (praljubadzjéjka)
• Bulgarian: прелюбоде́йка f (preljubodéjka)
• Czech: cizoložnice f
• Dutch: echtbreekster (nl) f, overspelige (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: adultulino
• Finnish: avionrikkoja (fi)
• French: adultère (fr) m or f
• Georgian: მრუში (mruši)
• German: Ehebrecherin (de) f
• Greek: μοιχαλίδα (el) f (moichalída)

  Ancient Greek: μοιχοτύπη f (moikhotúpē)

• Irish: banadhaltrach m
• Italian: adultera (it) f
• Latin: adultera f
• Macedonian: прељубница f (preljubnica)
• Malayalam: വ്യഭിചാരിണി (ml) (vyabhicāriṇi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekteskapsbryterske m or f

• Polish: cudzołożnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: adúltera (pt) f
• Romanian: adulteră f
• Russian: прелюбоде́йка (ru) f (preljubodéjka)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-adhaltraiche f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́љубница f, брако̀ломка f

  Latin: préljubnica (sh) f, brakòlomka (sh) f

• Slovak: cudzoložnica f
• Slovene: prešuštnica f
• Spanish: adúltera (es) f
• Swedish: äktenskapsbryterska (sv) c
• Ukrainian: перелю́бниця f (pereljúbnycja), перелю́бка f (pereljúbka)
• Yiddish: נואפֿטע f (noyefte)

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