collaborateur

English

Noun

collaborateur (plural collaborateurs)

1. Dated form of collaborator.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French collaborateur. The word became the primary label for Nazi collaborators during the Second World War and has been extremely pejorative ever since.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔ.laː.boː.raːˈtøːr/

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧bo‧ra‧teur
• Rhymes: -øːr

Noun

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, diminutive collaborateurtje n)

1. (derogatory) One who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator. [from WW II]
2. (dated) A collaborator, one who cooperates on a certain work. [19th c. - early 1940s]

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kolaborator

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  collaborare +‎ -ateur (or collaborer +‎ -eur), equivalent to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin col- (“with, together”) + labor (“work”).

Noun

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, feminine collaboratrice)

1. collaborator

Further reading

• “collaborateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French collaborateur.

Noun

collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs)

1. (Jersey) (Nazi) collaborator