aggressor

See also: Aggressor

English

Alternative forms

• aggressour (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.

Latin gradior

Latin aggredior

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin aggressorder.

English aggressor

Derived from Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɛsə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɛsɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

     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.

Derived terms

• bioaggressor
• cyberaggressor
• microaggressor
• nonaggressor
• passive aggressor, passive-aggressor

Translations

the person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression

• Albanian: agresor (sq) m
• Arabic: مُعْتَدٍ m (muʕtadin), بَاغٍ m (bāḡin), مُعْتِد m (muʕtid)
• Armenian: ագրեսոր (hy) (agresor)
• Azerbaijani: təcavüzkar, mütəcaviz
• Belarusian: агрэ́сар m (ahrésar), агрэ́сарка f (ahrésarka)
• Bengali: আক্রমণকারী (bn) (akromonkari)
• Bulgarian: агре́сор (bg) m (agrésor), агре́сорка m (agrésorka), напада́тел m (napadátel), напада́телка f (napadátelka)
• Burmese: ရန်လိုသူ (ranluisu), ကြူးကျော်သူ (kru:kyausu)
• 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, angriber (da) c
• Dutch: agressor (nl) m, aanvaller (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), επιδρομέας (el) m (epidroméas)
• Hebrew: תּוֹקְפָן m (tokpán), פּוֹלֵשׁ m (polésh)
• Hindi: आक्रामक (hi) m (ākrāmak), आक्रमणकारी (hi) m (ākramaṇkārī), हमलावर (hi) m (hamlāvar)
• Hungarian: támadó (hu), agresszor (hu)
• Icelandic: árásarmaður m
• Indonesian: agresor (id), penyerang (id)
• Irish: ionsaitheoir m
• Italian: aggressore (it) m, aggreditrice f
• Japanese: 侵略者 (ja) (しんりゃくしゃ, shinryakusha)
• Kazakh: басқыншы (basqynşy), агрессор (agressor)
• Khmer: អ្នកឈ្លានពាន (nĕək chliən piən)
• Korean: 침략자(侵略者) (chimnyakja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: êrişker (ku)

• Kyrgyz: агрессор (ky) (agressor), баскынчы (baskıncı)
• Lao: ຜູ້ຮຸກຮານ (phū huk hān)
• Latin: aggressor m
• Latvian: agresors m
• Lithuanian: agresorius m
• Macedonian: агре́сор m (agrésor), агре́сорка f (agrésorka)
• Malay: pengagresif, penyeran
• Maltese: aggressur m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: түрэмгийлэгч (mn) (türemgiilegč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angriper m, aggressor (no) m

• Pashto: یرغلګر m (yarǧalgár)
• Persian:

  Dari: مُتَجَاوِز (fa) (mutajāwiz), مُهَاجِم (fa) (muhājim)

  Iranian Persian: مُتَجاوِز (fa) (motajâvez), مُهاجِم (fa) (mohâjem)

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

  Cyrillic: а̀гресор m, а̀гресорица f

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

• Slovak: agresor (sk) 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), мутаҷовиз (mutajoviz), муҳоҷим (muhojim)
• Tatar: агрессор (ağressor), тәгавүзкәр (täğäwüzkär), һөҗүмтөз (höcümtöz), баскынчы (basqınçı)
• Thai: ผู้รุกราน (pûu-rúk-raan)
• Turkish: saldırgan (tr), mütecaviz (tr)
• Turkmen: zulumkeş (tk), zulum ediji
• Ukrainian: агре́сор (uk) m (ahrésor), агре́сорка f (ahrésorka)
• Urdu: حَمْلَہ آوَر m (hamla āvar), جارِح m (jārih)
• Uyghur: تاجاۋۇزچى (tajawuzchi)
• Uzbek: agressor (uz), tajovuzkor (uz), bosqinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ xâm lược
• Yiddish: אַגרעסער m (agreser)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɡˈɡrɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aɡˈɡrɛs.sor]

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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
• Middle French: aggresseur
  • French: agresseur
    • → Polish: agresor
    • → Romanian: agresor
• → German: Aggressor
• Italian: aggressore
  • → Maltese: aggressur
• Portuguese: agressor
• Spanish: agresor
  • → Tagalog: 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.