protector

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• protectour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

Anglo-Norman protectour, from Old French protector, from Latin protector, from protegere (“to shield, protect”).

PronunciationEdit

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• /prəˈtektə/
• enPR: prə-tĕk'tər

NounEdit

protector (plural protectors)

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
2. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference.
4. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
   • Jon Huntsman, Jr.

     I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

5. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

6. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

SynonymsEdit

• guard
• sentry

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• Lord Protector (also shortened to protector)
• protect
• protection

• protectoral
• protectorate
• protectorship

• protectory
• protectress
• protectrice

TranslationsEdit

someone who protects or guards

• Armenian: պահապան (hy) (pahapan)
• Azeri: qoruyucu
• Chamorro: a'adahi
• Czech: ochránce m
• Dutch: beschermer (nl) m, beschermheer (nl) m, behoeder m
• Finnish: suojelija (fi)
• French: protecteur (fr) m, guardien m
• German: Beschützer (de) m
• Irish: cosantóir m

• Italian: protettore (it) m, protettrice (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: حافیز‎ (ku), پاڕێزگار‎

• Latin: patronus m, patrona f, protector m, protectrix f, tutor m, fautor m
• Portuguese: protetor (pt) m
• Romanian: protector (ro) m, n, protectoare f
• Russian: защи́тник (ru) m (zaščítnik), защи́тница (ru) f (zaščítnica)
• Spanish: protector (es) m, protectora (es) f
• Turkish: hamiī, koruyucu (tr), mevla (tr), sahip (tr), veli (tr)

a mechanism which is designed to protect

• Finnish: suoja (fi), suojamekanismi
• French: protecteur (fr)
• Portuguese: protetor (pt) m

• Romanian: protector (ro) m, n, protectoare f
• Russian: предохрани́тель (ru) m (predoxranítelʹ), проте́ктор (ru) m (protɛ́ktor)

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pɾo.təkˈto/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾu.təkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾo.tekˈtoɾ/

AdjectiveEdit

protector (feminine protectora, masculine plural protectors, feminine plural protectores)

1. protecting

NounEdit

protector m (plural protectors)

1. protector

Further readingEdit

• “protector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin prōtector, from prōtegō (“to shield, protect”).

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

protector m (plural protectoren, diminutive protectortje n)

1. A protector, guardian, regent etc.
2. (rare) Title of certain orphanage governors

SynonymsEdit

• behoeder m
• beschermer m
• beschermheer m
• protecteur m (close French cognate)

Derived termsEdit

• lord-protector m
• protectorschap n

Related termsEdit

• protectie
• protectoraat n

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LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈtek.tor/, [proːˈtɛk.tɔr]

NounEdit

prōtector m (genitive prōtectōris); third declension

1. protector (all senses)
2. guardian; guard

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	prōtector	prōtectōrēs
genitive	prōtectōris	prōtectōrum
dative	prōtectōrī	prōtectōribus
accusative	prōtectōrem	prōtectōrēs
ablative	prōtectōre	prōtectōribus
vocative	prōtector	prōtectōrēs

DescendantsEdit

• Russian: протектор (protektor)

ReferencesEdit

• protector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “protector”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “protector” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras)

1. Alternative spelling of protetor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

AdjectiveEdit

protector m (feminine singular protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras, comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of protetor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pɾoteɡˈtoɾ/, [pɾot̪eɣˈt̪oɾ]

AdjectiveEdit

protector (feminine singular protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras) or protector (feminine singular protectriz, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectrices)

1. protective

NounEdit

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora) or protector (feminine singular protectriz, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectrices)

1. A protector

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• protección
• protectorado

• protectoría
• protectorio

• proteger