looter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Prakrit 𑀮𑀼𑀝𑁆𑀝 (luṭṭa)

Hindi लूट (lūṭ)bor.

English loot

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English looter

From loot + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlutɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

looter (plural looters)

1. One who loots, who steals during a general disturbance such as a riot or natural disaster.

   After the hurricane, before law was restored, looters stole everything that wasn't nailed down.

Derived terms

• ninja looter

Translations

one who loots

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: çapovulçu
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ryöstelijä
• French: pilleur (fr) m, pillard (fr) m
• German: Plünderer (de) m
• Greek: πλιατσικολόγος (el) m (pliatsikológos)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: penjarah (id)
• Irish: sladaí m, sladaire m
• Latin: expīlātor m, praedātor m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: kaipāhua, kaipāhuahua
• Norman: pilleux m (Jersey)
• Polish: szabrownik (pl) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: мародёр (ru) m (marodjór)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: mporaji
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

  Ottoman Turkish: چاپولجی (çapulcu), پلاچقه‌جی (plaçkacı)

• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• retool, rootle, tooler