suitor

English

Alternative forms

• suitour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sutour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

suitor (plural suitors)

1. One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone.
   • 1999, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (→ISBN), page 316:

     (Notice that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:suitor.
2. (law) A party to a suit or litigation.
3. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.

Translations

party to a suit or litigation

• Irish: gearánaí m, agróir m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

wooer

• Armenian: երկրպագու (hy) (erkrpagu)
• Dutch: huwelijkskandidaat (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kosiskelija (fi)
• French: prétendant (fr) m, soupirant (fr) m
• German: Freier (de) m, Liebeswerber m
• Greek:

  Ancient: μνηστήρ m (mnēstḗr)

• Hungarian: kérő (hu)
• Irish: suiríoch m
• Italian: postulante (it) m, richiedente (it) m, corteggiatore (it) m, pretendente (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: procus m
• Maori: kaimātoro
• Old English: wōgere m
• Portuguese: pretendente m or f
• Russian: покло́нник (ru) m (poklónnik), покло́нница (ru) f (poklónnica), кавале́р (ru) m (kavalér), ухажёр (ru) m (uxažór), почита́тель (ru) m (počitátelʹ), почита́тельница (ru) f (počitátelʹnica)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: fryjaŕ m, fryjowaŕ m

• Spanish: pretendiente (es)
• Swedish: friare (sv) c
• Welsh: ymgeisydd (cy) m

Verb

suitor (third-person singular simple present suitors, present participle suitoring, simple past and past participle suitored)

1. To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

References

• “suitor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• turios

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) suitor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of suō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of suō