timador

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish timar

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Spanish -dor

Spanish timador

From timar + -dor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /timaˈdoɾ/ [t̪i.maˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ti‧ma‧dor

Noun

timador m (plural timadores, feminine timadora, feminine plural timadoras)

1. confidence trickster, scam artist
   • 2022 February 13, Sergio del Molino, “Los abismos de Tinder”, in El País‎^[1], retrieved 11 January 2023:

     El documental de Netflix sobre un timador profesional en la red social de ligoteo parece la adaptación del libro de Jimina Sabadú dedicado a la aplicación.

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Related terms

• timar

Further reading

• “timador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025