traditor
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“I hand over”). See traitor.
Noun edit
traditor (plural traditors or traditores)
- A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
- 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:
- A number of bishops cooperated with him , piqued that they had not been called to the ordination of Cæcilian . Seventy bishops , a number of whom had been traditors , met thus together at Carthage , to depose Cæcilian.
References edit
- “traditor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian edit
Noun edit
traditor m (apocopated)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From trādō (“give up, hand over”) + -tor; literally "one who hands over (something)".
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtra.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪it̪or]
Noun edit
trāditor m (genitive trāditōris, feminine trāditrīx); third declension (post-Augustan)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trāditor | trāditōrēs |
Genitive | trāditōris | trāditōrum |
Dative | trāditōrī | trāditōribus |
Accusative | trāditōrem | trāditōrēs |
Ablative | trāditōre | trāditōribus |
Vocative | trāditor | trāditōrēs |
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- traditor 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)
- traditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Noun edit
traditor m (plural traditor)