violator

English

Alternative forms

• violater

Etymology

From Middle English violator, from Latin violātor. By surface analysis, violate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

violator (plural violators)

1. One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

     The ordinance subjected any violator to a fine, to imprisonment for not more than six months, to community service, or to some combination of the three.

   1. (literary, euphemistic) One who violates another person's body as through forced sexual activity
2. In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.

Derived terms

• violatress

Translations

one who violates

• Bulgarian: нарушител (bg) (narušitel)
• French: violateur (fr) m, violatrice (fr) f
• German: Verletzer m, Zuwiderhandelnder m, Täter (de) m, Übertreter (des Gesetzes) m, Vergewaltiger (de) m
• Indonesian: pelanggar (id)
• Japanese: 違反者 (ihansha), 侵害者 (shingaisha)
• Kalmyk: эвдәч (evdäç)
• Macedonian: нару́шител m (narúšitel), нару́шувач m (narúšuvač), прекр́шител m (prekŕšitel)
• Persian: متخلف (fa) (motexallef), خلافکار (fa) (xalâfkâr), خاطی (fa) (xâti)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wi.ɔˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.oˈlaː.tor]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wéyHs

Proto-Italic *wīs

Latin vīs

Latin violō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin violātor

From violō + -tor.

Noun

violātor m (genitive violātōris); third declension

1. injurer, profaner, violator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	violātor	violātōrēs
genitive	violātōris	violātōrum
dative	violātōrī	violātōribus
accusative	violātōrem	violātōrēs
ablative	violātōre	violātōribus
vocative	violātor	violātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: violador
• French: violateur
• Galician: violador
• Italian: violatore
• Portuguese: violador
• Spanish: violador

Etymology 2

Verb

violātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of violō

References

• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “violator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French violateur.

Noun

violator m (plural violatori)

1. rapist
2. violator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	violator	violatorul	violatori	violatorii
genitive-dative	violator	violatorului	violatori	violatorilor
vocative	violatorule		violatorilor