plaintiff

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English

Etymology

From Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining; as a noun, one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive.

Noun

plaintiff (plural plaintiffs)

1. (law) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accusers.

Synonyms

• complainant, litigant, claimant (English law), pursuer (Scottish law)

Antonyms

• defendant, suspect

Hypernyms

• litigant, litigator

Hyponyms

• suer, petitioner

Related terms

• plaintive

Translations

party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant

• Arabic: (indefinite) مُدَّعٍ‎ m (muddaʿin), (definite) اَلْمُدَّعِي‎ (al-muddaʿī)
• Armenian: հայցվոր (hy) (haycʿvor)
• Bulgarian: тъжител (bg) m (tǎžitel)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 原告 (jyun⁴ gou³)

  Mandarin: 原告 (zh) (yuángào)

• Czech: žalobce m
• Dutch: eiser (nl), aanklager (nl)
• Esperanto: plendanto
• Estonian: hageja (et)
• Finnish: kantaja (fi)
• French: demandeur (fr), plaignant (fr) m, plaignante (fr) f
• Georgian: მოსარჩელე (mosarčele)
• German: Kläger (de) m
• Hebrew: המבקש (ha'mevakesh)
• Hungarian: felperes (hu)
• Icelandic: stefnandi m
• Indonesian: penggugat (id)

• Interlingua: demandator
• Irish: éilitheoir m, gearánach m, gearánaí m
• Italian: querelante (it) m, parte civile f, ricorrente (it) m
• Japanese: 原告 (ja) (げんこく, genkoku)
• Latin: petītor m, petītrix f
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᠪᡧᠠᡥᠠ
  ᠨᡳᠶ᠋ᠠᠯᠮᠠ (habšaha niy᠋alma)
• Maori: kaiwhakapae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: заалдагч (zaaldagč)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭ᠋ᠠᠯᠳ᠋ᠤᠭᠴᠢ (ǰaɣ᠋ald᠋uɣči)

  Classical Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠭᠠᠯᠳᠤᠭᠰᠠᠨ
  ᠬᠦ᠋ᠮᠦᠨ (ǰaɣalduɣsan kü᠋mün)

• Persian: خواهان‎ (fa) (xâhân)
• Polish: powód (pl) m, powódka f
• Portuguese: querelante m or f; acusação; promotoria
• Russian: исте́ц (ru) m (istéc)
• Serbo-Croatian: жалилац m (žalilac)
• Slovak: žalobca m
• Spanish: demandante (es), querellante
• Swedish: åtalad (sv) c, kärande (sv) c, målsägande (sv) c, målsägare (sv) c
• Tagalog: nagsasakdal
• Thai: โจทก์ (th) (jòot)
• Vietnamese: nguyên cáo (vi)
• Yakut: үҥээччи (üŋeeççi)

Further reading

• plaintiff in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plaintiff in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.