infector
See also: infecter
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
infector (plural infectors)
- Something that infects; that which causes infection.
- 2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science[1], volume 289, number 5486, , pages 1863–1865:
- That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a "boot-sector infector" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
īnfectus, perfect passive participle of īnficiō (“to infect”) + -tor
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [ĩːˈfɛkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [iɱˈfɛkt̪or]
Noun edit
īnfector m (genitive īnfectōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | īnfector | īnfectōrēs |
| Genitive | īnfectōris | īnfectōrum |
| Dative | īnfectōrī | īnfectōribus |
| Accusative | īnfectōrem | īnfectōrēs |
| Ablative | īnfectōre | īnfectōribus |
| Vocative | īnfector | īnfectōrēs |
References edit
- “infector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers