detractor

English

Alternative forms

• detractour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.

   Synonyms: slanderer, libeler, cynic, mudslinger, defamer, critic

   Antonyms: proponent, promoter, supporter

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

Derived terms

• race detractor

 

Translations

a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause

• Bulgarian: злословник m (zloslovnik)
• Czech: odpůrce (cs) m
• Dutch: kritikaster m
• Finnish: vähättelijä
• French: détracteur (fr) m, détracteuse f
• German: Lästerer m, Verleumder m, Lästermaul (de) n, Spötter (de) m
• Greek: δυσφημιστής m (dysfimistís)
• Irish: cáinteoir m
• Latin: dētractor m
• Persian: بدگو (fa) (bad-gu), عیب‌جو ('eyb-ju)
• Russian: клеветни́к (ru) m (klevetník), клеветни́ца (ru) f (klevetníca), очерни́тель (ru) m (očernítelʹ), очерни́тельница (ru) f (očernítelʹnica)
• Swedish: belackare (sv) c

Anagrams

• tractored

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈtrak.tor/, [d̪eːˈt̪räkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈtrak.tor/, [d̪eˈt̪räkt̪or]

Noun

dētractor m (genitive dētractōris); third declension

1. detractor, disparager

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dētractor	dētractōrēs
Genitive	dētractōris	dētractōrum
Dative	dētractōrī	dētractōribus
Accusative	dētractōrem	dētractōrēs
Ablative	dētractōre	dētractōribus
Vocative	dētractor	dētractōrēs

Verb

dētractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French détracteur.

Noun

detractor m (plural detractori)

1. detractor

Declension

Declension of detractor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) detractor	detractorul	(niște) detractori	detractorii
genitive/dative	(unui) detractor	detractorului	(unor) detractori	detractorilor
vocative	detractorule		detractorilor

Spanish

Etymology

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Noun

detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)

1. detractor

Further reading

• “detractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014