protestor
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
protestor (plural protestors)
- Alternative spelling of protester
- 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:
- No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
- 2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 43:
- We also talk about dealing with protestors, whose actions are creating additional costs of tens of millions of pounds.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːˈtes.tor/, [proːˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈtes.tor/, [proˈt̪ɛst̪or]
Verb edit
prōtestor (present infinitive prōtestārī, perfect active prōtestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to testify, bear witness
- to protest
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: protestar
- English: protest
- French: protester
- Galician: protestar
- Italian: protestare
- Portuguese: protestar
- Spanish: protestar
- Romanian: protesta
References edit
- “protestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- protestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.