traditor
English
Etymology
From Latin traditor (“betrayer”), from trado (“I hand over”). See traitor.
Noun
traditor (plural traditors or traditores)
- A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milner to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “traditor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Noun
traditor m (uncountable)
Latin
Etymology
From trādō (“give up, hand over”); literally "one who hands over (something)".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtra.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪it̪or]
Noun
trāditor m (genitive trāditōris, feminine trāditrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trāditor | trāditōrēs |
Genitive | trāditōris | trāditōrum |
Dative | trāditōrī | trāditōribus |
Accusative | trāditōrem | trāditōrēs |
Ablative | trāditōre | trāditōribus |
Vocative | trāditor | trāditōrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: tradhtar, tradhëtar
- Breton: treitour
- Catalan: traïdor
- Dutch: treiteren
- English: traitor
- French: traitre, traître
- Galician: traidor
- Haitian Creole: trèt
- Italian: traditore
- Occitan: traïdor, traite
- Old Occitan: trachor
- Piedmontese: traditor/traditur
- Portuguese: traidor
- Spanish: traidor
- Romanian: trădător
- Walloon: traite
References
- “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- traditor 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)
- traditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
traditor m (plural traditor)
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