delator
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English delatoures pl, from Latin dēlātor.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
delator (plural delators)
- An accuser; an informer.
- 1655, James Howell, “To the Rt. Hon, the Lord Mohun”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- […] his Accuser or Delator […]
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
delator (plural delatores)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dēlātus (perfect participle of dēferō) + -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈlaː.tor/, [d̪eːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈla.tor/, [d̪eˈläːt̪or]
Noun edit
dēlātor m (genitive dēlātōris, feminine dēlātrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dēlātor | dēlātōrēs |
Genitive | dēlātōris | dēlātōrum |
Dative | dēlātōrī | dēlātōribus |
Accusative | dēlātōrem | dēlātōrēs |
Ablative | dēlātōre | dēlātōribus |
Vocative | dēlātor | dēlātōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “delator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- delator 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)
- delator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin dēlātōrem (“informer, denouncer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
delator m (plural delatores, feminine delatora, feminine plural delatoras)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French délateur.
Noun edit
delator m (plural delatori)
Declension edit
Declension of delator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) delator | delatorul | (niște) delatori | delatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) delator | delatorului | (unor) delatori | delatorilor |
vocative | delatorule | delatorilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dēlātōrem (“informer, denouncer”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
delator (feminine delatora, masculine plural delatores, feminine plural delatoras)
Related terms edit
Noun edit
delator m (plural delatores, feminine delatora, feminine plural delatoras)
Further reading edit
- “delator”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014