protector

English

Alternative forms

• protectour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman protectour, protector, from Latin prōtector, from prōtegō (“shield, protect”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: prə-tĕk'tər, IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktɚ/

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• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktə/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: pro‧tec‧tor

Noun

protector (plural protectors)

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
   • 2005 January 3, Jon Huntsman Jr., quoted in “Highlights from Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s inauguration speech”, Deseret News, 4 January 2005:

     I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

2. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference.
4. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
5. (UK, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 122, column 2:

     My Lord Protector, ’tis his Highnes pleaſure, You do prepare to ride vnto S. Albons, / Where as the King and Queene do mean to Hawke.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

Synonyms

• guard
• sentry

Related terms

• Lord Protector (also shortened to protector)
• protect
• protection
• protectoral
• protectorate
• protectorship
• protectory
• protectress
• protectrice

 

Translations

someone who protects or guards

• Armenian: պահապան (hy) (pahapan)
• Azerbaijani: qoruyucu
• Chamorro: a'adahi
• Czech: ochránce m
• Dutch: beschermer (nl) m, beschermheer (nl) m, behoeder (nl) m
• Faroese: verndari m
• Finnish: suojelija (fi)
• French: protecteur (fr) m, guardien m
• Galician: protector m
• German: Beschützer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: προστάτης m (prostátēs)

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• Irish: cosantóir m
• Italian: protettore (it) m, protettrice (it) f
• Kurdish: ,

  Sorani: ,

• Latin: patronus m, patrona f, protector m, protectrix f, tūtor m, fautor m, praeses m
• Portuguese: protetor (pt) m
• Romanian: protector (ro) m or n, protectoare f
• Russian: защи́тник (ru) m (zaščítnik), защи́тница (ru) f (zaščítnica)
• Sanskrit: नाथ (sa) m (nātha)
• Spanish: protector (es) m, protectora (es) f, valedor m
• Turkish: hami (tr), koruyucu (tr), mevla (tr), sahip (tr), veli (tr)

a mechanism which is designed to protect

• Finnish: suoja (fi), suojamekanismi
• French: protecteur (fr)
• Portuguese: protetor (pt) m
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• Romanian: protector (ro) m or n, protectoare f
• Russian: предохрани́тель (ru) m (predoxranítelʹ), проте́ктор (ru) m (protɛ́ktor)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾu.təkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾo.təkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾo.tekˈtoɾ]

Adjective

protector (feminine protectora, masculine plural protectors, feminine plural protectores)

1. protecting

Noun

protector m (plural protectors)

1. protector

Further reading

• “protector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin prōtector, from prōtegō (“to shield, protect”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

protector m (plural protectoren, diminutive protectortje n)

1. A protector, guardian, regent etc.
2. (rare) Title of certain orphanage governors

Synonyms

• behoeder m
• beschermer m
• beschermheer m
• protecteur m (close French cognate)

Derived terms

• lord-protector m
• protectorschap n

Related terms

• protectie
• protectoraat n

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proːˈteːk.tor/, [proːˈt̪eːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈtek.tor/, [proˈt̪ɛkt̪or]

Noun

prōtēctor m (genitive prōtēctōris); third declension

1. protector (all senses)
2. guardian; guard

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōtēctor	prōtēctōrēs
Genitive	prōtēctōris	prōtēctōrum
Dative	prōtēctōrī	prōtēctōribus
Accusative	prōtēctōrem	prōtēctōrēs
Ablative	prōtēctōre	prōtēctōribus
Vocative	prōtēctor	prōtēctōrēs

Descendants

• Russian: протектор (protektor)

References

• “protector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• protector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• protector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Noun

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras)

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Adjective

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾoteɡˈtoɾ/ [pɾo.t̪eɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]

Adjective

protector (feminine protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras) or protector (feminine protectriz, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectrices)

1. protective

   una familia protectora

   a protective family

Derived terms

• ángel protector
• cinta adhesiva protectora

Noun

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras) or protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectriz, feminine plural protectrices, masculine plural protectores)

1. A protector

Related terms

• protección
• protectorado
• protectoría
• protectorio
• proteger