aggressor

See also: Aggressor

English

Alternative forms

• aggressour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”)

Noun

aggressor (plural aggressors)

1. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Translations

the person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression

• Arabic: مُعْتَدٍ‎ m (muʿtadin), بَاغٍ‎ m (bāḡin), مُعْتِد‎ m (muʿtid)
• Armenian: ագրեսոր (hy) (agresor)
• Bulgarian: агре́сор (bg) m (agrésor), напада́тел m (napadátel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侵略者 (zh) (qīnlüèzhě)

• Crimean Tatar: agressor
• Dutch: agressor (nl)
• Finnish: hyökkääjä (fi)
• French: agresseur (fr) m
• German: Aggressor (de) m
• Greek: επιτιθέμενος (el) m (epitithémenos)

• Hungarian: támadó (hu)
• Interlingue: agressor
• Irish: ionsaitheoir m
• Japanese: 侵略者 (しんりゃくしゃ, shinryakusha)
• Korean: 침략자 (chimnyakja)
• Portuguese: agressor (pt) m
• Russian: агре́ссор (ru) m (agréssor)
• Spanish: agresor (es) m, agresora (es) f
• Swedish: angripare (sv) c
• Turkish: saldırgan (tr), mütecaviz (tr)
• Ukrainian: агре́сор (uk) m (ahrésor)

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Danish

Noun

aggressor c (singular definite aggressoren, plural indefinite aggressorer)

1. aggressor

Declension

Declension of aggressor

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aggressor	aggressoren	aggressorer	aggressorerne
genitive	aggressors	aggressorens	aggressorers	aggressorernes

Further reading

• “aggressor” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Latin

Etymology

From aggredior (“attack, assault”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [aɡˈɡrɛs.sɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [aɡˈɡrɛs.sɔr]

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aggressor	aggressōrēs
Genitive	aggressōris	aggressōrum
Dative	aggressōrī	aggressōribus
Accusative	aggressōrem	aggressōrēs
Ablative	aggressōre	aggressōribus
Vocative	aggressor	aggressōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: agressor
• English: aggressor
• French: agresseur
• Italian: aggressore
• Portuguese: agressor
• Spanish: agresor

References

• aggressor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aggressor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette