abusor

Latin

Etymology

abūtor (“misuse, abuse”, agentive suffix) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈbuː.sor/, [äˈbuːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈbu.sor/, [äˈbuːs̬or]

Noun

abūsor m (genitive abūsōris); third declension

1. he who misuses

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abūsor	abūsōrēs
Genitive	abūsōris	abūsōrum
Dative	abūsōrī	abūsōribus
Accusative	abūsōrem	abūsōrēs
Ablative	abūsōre	abūsōribus
Vocative	abūsor	abūsōrēs

References

• “ăbūsor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abusor 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)
• abusor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.