petitioner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-

Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti

Latin petō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin petītiōnembor.

Old French peticiunbor.

Middle English

English petition

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English petitioner

From petition +‎ -er. Doublet of petitionary.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɪʃənɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

petitioner (plural petitioners)

1. (law) Someone who presents a petition to a court.
   • 2020 April 20, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court says unanimous jury verdicts required in state criminal trials for serious offenses”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 June 2021:

     The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] In court, a lawyer for Louisiana argued that if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of Ramos the ruling could apply to some 32,000 people that are currently serving time for serious crimes because thousands of petitioners would come to the court demanding relief.

2. Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:

     Ethel was in mourning: they had judged it the most fitting habit for a petitioner; it was certainly one most becoming to the wearer.

Synonyms

• (general): solicitor (archaic)

Derived terms

• copetitioner
• counterpetitioner

Translations

someone who presents a petition to a court

• Bengali: খাস্তগীর (khastogir)
• Bulgarian: ищец (bg) m (ištec)
• Egyptian: (sprw)
• Finnish: kantaja (fi)
• French: pétitionnaire (fr)
• German: Petent (de) m, Petentin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἱκέτης m (hikétēs)

• Hindi: याचक (hi) m (yācak), याचिकाकर्ता m (yācikākartā), वादी (hi) m (vādī), आवेदक (hi) m (āvedak)
• Irish: achainíoch m
• Italian: istante (it) m, richiedente (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dawakar (ku) m or f, xwedîdawa m or f

• Māori: kaipetihana, kaiinoi
• Middle English: oratour, bedeman
• Portuguese: peticionário (pt) m, requerente (pt) m or f
• Shor: сурағчы (surağçı)
• Spanish: accionante m or f, peticionario
• Swedish: kärande (sv) c

Anagrams

• repetition