aggressor

See also: Aggressor

English

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• aggressour (obsolete)

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
• French: agresseur (fr) m
• German: Aggressor (de) m
• Greek: επιτιθέμενος (el) m (epitithémenos)

• Hungarian: támadó (hu)
• Irish: ionsaitheoir m
• Japanese: 侵略者 (しんりゃくしゃ, shinryakusha)
• 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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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	aggressor	aggressōrēs
genitive	aggressōris	aggressōrum
dative	aggressōrī	aggressōribus
accusative	aggressōrem	aggressōrēs
ablative	aggressōre	aggressōribus
vocative	aggressor	aggressōrēs

Descendants

• English: aggressor
• Italian: aggressore

References

• aggressor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aggressor” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)