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.
   • 1950 September 1, Truman, Harry S., MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 2:37 from the start:

     Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.

Translations

the person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression

• Albanian: agresor (sq) m
• Arabic: مُعْتَدٍ‎ m (muʿtadin), بَاغٍ‎ m (bāḡin), مُعْتِد‎ m (muʿtid)
• Armenian: ագրեսոր (hy) (agresor)
• Azerbaijani: təcavüzkar
• Belarusian: агрэ́сар m (ahrésar), агрэ́сарка f (ahrésarka)
• Bulgarian: агре́сор (bg) m (agrésor), агре́сорка m (agrésorka), напада́тел m (napadátel), напада́телка f (napadátelka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侵略者 (zh) (qīnlüèzhě)

• Crimean Tatar: agressor
• Czech: agresor (cs) m, agresorka f, útočník (cs) m, útočnice f
• Danish: aggressor (da) c
• Dutch: agressor (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: aggressor (et)
• Finnish: hyökkääjä (fi)
• French: agresseur (fr) m, agresseuse (fr) f
• Georgian: აგრესორი (agresori)
• German: Aggressor (de) m, Aggressorin (de) f, Angreifer (de) m, Angreiferin (de) f
• Greek: επιτιθέμενος (el) m (epitithémenos)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: támadó (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: ionsaitheoir m
• Italian: aggressore (it) m, aggreditrice f
• Japanese: 侵略者 (しんりゃくしゃ, shinryakusha)

• Kazakh: басқыншы (basqınşı), агрессор (agressor)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 침략자(侵略者) (chimnyakja)
• Kyrgyz: агрессор (ky) (agressor)
• Latvian: agresors m
• Lithuanian: agresorius m
• Macedonian: агре́сор m (agrésor), агре́сорка f (agrésorka)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angriper m, aggressor (no) m

• Polish: agresor (pl) m, agresorka f
• Portuguese: agressor (pt) m, agressora f
• Romanian: agresor (ro) m
• Russian: агре́ссор (ru) m (agréssor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀гресор m, а̀гресорица f

  Roman: àgresor (sh) m, àgresorica (sh) f

• Slovak: agresor m, agresorka f, útočník m
• Slovene: napadalec (sl) m, napadalka f
• Spanish: agresor (es) m, agresora (es) f
• Swedish: angripare (sv) c, aggressor (sv) c
• Tajik: таҷовузкор (tajovuzkor), таҷовузгар (tajovuzgar), агрессор (agressor)
• Tatar: агрессор (ağressor)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: saldırgan (tr), mütecaviz (tr)
• Ukrainian: агре́сор (uk) m (ahrésor), агре́сорка f (ahrésorka)
• Uzbek: agressor (uz), tajovuzkor (uz), bosqinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ xâm lược

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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/, [äɡˈɡrɛs̠ːɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [äɡˈɡrɛsːor]

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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• aggressor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette