traditor

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin traditor (“betrayer”), from (deprecated template usage) trado. See (deprecated template usage) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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

1. betrayer, traitor
2. teacher

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Albanian: tradhtar, tradhëtar
• Breton: treitour
• Catalan: traïdor
• English: traitor
• French: traitre, traître

• Haitian Creole: trèt
• Italian: traditore
• Portuguese: traidor
• Spanish: traidor
• Romanian: trădător

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.