traditor

English

Etymology

Latin traditor (“betrayer”), from trado (“I hand over”). See traitor.

Noun

traditor (plural traditors or traditores)

  1. 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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Noun

traditor m (invariable)

  1. Apocopic form of traditore

Latin

Etymology

From trādō (“give up, hand over”); literally "one who hands over (something)".

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈtraː.dɪ.tɔr]

Noun

trāditor m (genitive trāditōris); third declension

  1. betrayer, traitor
  2. teacher

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative trāditor trāditōrēs
genitive trāditōris trāditōrum
dative trāditōrī trāditōribus
accusative trāditōrem trāditōrēs
ablative trāditōre trāditōribus
vocative trāditor trāditōrēs
  • trāditiō
  • trāditrīx (“female traitor, betrayer; female teacher”)

Descendants

References

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