calumniator

English

Etymology

From Latin calumniātor.

Noun

calumniator (plural calumniators)

1. A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
   • 1857, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal:

     He did not go to the police and cover the calumniator with infamy before the tribunals.

Translations

a person who calumniates

• French: calomniateur (fr)
• Hungarian: rágalmazó (hu)
• Polish: oszczerca (pl) m
• Russian: клеветник (ru) m (klevetnik)

Latin

Alternative forms

• kalumniātor

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin calumnia

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin calumnior

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin calumniātor

From calumnior + -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.ɫʊm.niˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.lum.niˈaː.tor]

Noun

calumniātor m (genitive calumniātōris, feminine calumniātrīx); third declension

1. pettifogger
2. chicaner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	calumniātor	calumniātōrēs
genitive	calumniātōris	calumniātōrum
dative	calumniātōrī	calumniātōribus
accusative	calumniātōrem	calumniātōrēs
ablative	calumniātōre	calumniātōribus
vocative	calumniātor	calumniātōrēs

Descendants

• → English: calumniator
• French: calomniateur
• Italian: calunniatore
• Portuguese: caluniador
• Romanian: calomniator
• Spanish: calumniador

Verb

calumniātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of calumnior

References

• “calumniator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calumniator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calumniator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.