traitor
See also: traïtor
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin trāditor.
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: trader (in dialects with flapping)
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
traitor (plural traitors)
- Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished
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- Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.
- Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust.
Translations
one who violates allegiance and betrays one's country
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a betrayer
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See also
Verb
traitor (third-person singular simple present traitors, present participle traitoring, simple past and past participle traitored)
- To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Translations
act the traitor toward
Adjective
traitor (comparative more traitor, superlative most traitor)
- traitorous
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Translations
traitorous
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Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adaptation of Latin trāditor, trāditorem.
Noun
traitor oblique singular, m (oblique plural traitors, nominative singular traitre, nominative plural traitor)
- traitor
- circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- Ne croire pas ce traïtor.
- Do not believe this traitor.
Related terms
Descendants
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin trāditor, trāditorem.
Noun
traitor m (oblique plural traitors, nominative singular traitors, nominative plural traitor)
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “traditor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 02
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