traditor

English

Etymology

From Latin traditor (“betrayer”), from trado (“I hand over”). See traitor.

Noun

traditor (plural traditors or traditores)

1. 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.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “traditor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Noun

traditor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of traditore

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Latin

Etymology

From trādō (“give up, hand over”); literally "one who hands over (something)".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪it̪or]

Noun

trāditor m (genitive trāditōris); third declension

1. betrayer, traitor
2. teacher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trāditor	trāditōrēs
Genitive	trāditōris	trāditōrum
Dative	trāditōrī	trāditōribus
Accusative	trāditōrem	trāditōrēs
Ablative	trāditōre	trāditōribus
Vocative	trāditor	trāditōrēs

Related terms

• trāditiō
• trāditrīx (“female traitor, betrayer; female teacher”)

Descendants

• Albanian: tradhtar, tradhëtar
• Breton: treitour
• Catalan: traïdor
• Dutch: treiteren
• English: traitor
• French: traitre, traître
• Haitian Creole: trèt
• Italian: traditore
• Occitan: traïdor, traite
• Old Occitan: trachor
• Piedmontese: traditor/traditur
• Portuguese: traidor
• Spanish: traidor
• Romanian: trădător
• Walloon: traite

References

• “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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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• traditur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tradiˈtur/

Noun

traditor m (plural traditor)

1. traitor