protestor
English
Etymology
Noun
protestor (plural protestors)
- Alternative spelling of protester
- 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter
- No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
- 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proːˈtes.tor/, [proːˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈtes.tor/, [proˈt̪ɛst̪or]
Verb
prōtestor (present infinitive prōtestārī, perfect active prōtestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- I testify, bear witness
- I protest
Conjugation
Descendants
- Catalan: protestar
- English: protest
- French: protester
- Galician: protestar
- Italian: protestare
- Portuguese: protestar
- Spanish: protestar
References
- “protestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- protestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.