aggressor

See also: Aggressor

English

Alternative forms

• aggressour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).

Noun

aggressor (plural aggressors)

1. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
   • 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 2:37 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.

Derived terms

• bioaggressor
• cyberaggressor
• microaggressor
• nonaggressor
• passive aggressor, passive-aggressor

Translations

the person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression

• Albanian: agresor (sq) m
• Arabic: مُعْتَدٍ m (muʕtadin), بَاغٍ m (bāḡin), مُعْتِد m (muʕtid)
• Armenian: ագրեսոր (hy) (agresor)
• Azerbaijani: təcavüzkar
• Belarusian: агрэ́сар m (ahrésar), агрэ́сарка f (ahrésarka)
• Bulgarian: агре́сор (bg) m (agrésor), агре́сорка m (agrésorka), напада́тел m (napadátel), напада́телка f (napadátelka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侵略者 (zh) (qīnlüèzhě)

• Crimean Tatar: agressor
• Czech: agresor (cs) m, agresorka f, útočník (cs) m, útočnice f
• Danish: aggressor (da) c, angriber (da) c
• Dutch: agressor (nl) m, aanvaller (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: aggressor (et)
• Finnish: hyökkääjä (fi)
• French: agresseur (fr) m, agresseuse (fr) f
• Georgian: აგრესორი (agresori)
• German: Aggressor (de) m, Aggressorin (de) f, Angreifer (de) m, Angreiferin (de) f
• Greek: επιτιθέμενος (el) m (epitithémenos)
• Hebrew: תּוֹקְפָן m (tokpán), פּוֹלֵשׁ m (polésh)
• Hungarian: támadó (hu), agresszor (hu)
• Icelandic: árásarmaður m
• Indonesian: agresor (id)
• Irish: ionsaitheoir m
• Italian: aggressore (it) m, aggreditrice f
• Japanese: 侵略者 (ja) (しんりゃくしゃ, shinryakusha)
• Kazakh: басқыншы (basqynşy), агрессор (agressor)
• Khmer: អ្នកឈ្លានពាន (nĕək chliən piən)
• Korean: 침략자(侵略者) (chimnyakja)
• Kyrgyz: агрессор (ky) (agressor)
• Lao: ຜູ້ຮຸກຮານ (phū huk hān)
• Latin: aggressor m
• Latvian: agresors m
• Lithuanian: agresorius m
• Macedonian: агре́сор m (agrésor), агре́сорка f (agrésorka)
• Malay: pengagresif
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: түрэмгийлэгч (mn) (türemgiilegč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angriper m, aggressor (no) m

• Persian: متجاوز (fa) (motajâvez), مهاجم (fa) (mohâjem)
• Polish: agresor (pl) m, agresorka f
• Portuguese: agressor (pt) m, agressora f
• Romanian: agresor (ro) m, agresoare (ro) f
• Russian: агре́ссор (ru) m (agréssor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀гресор m, а̀гресорица f

  Roman: àgresor (sh) m, àgresorica (sh) f

• Slovak: agresor (sk) m, agresorka f, útočník m
• Slovene: napadalec (sl) m, napadalka f
• Spanish: agresor (es) m, agresora (es) f
• Swedish: angripare (sv) c, aggressor (sv) c
• Tajik: таҷовузкор (tajovuzkor), таҷовузгар (tajovuzgar), агрессор (agressor), мутаҷовиз (mutajoviz)
• Tatar: агрессор (ağressor)
• Thai: ผู้รุกราน (pûu-rúk-raan)
• Turkish: saldırgan (tr), mütecaviz (tr)
• Ukrainian: агре́сор (uk) m (ahrésor), агре́сорка f (ahrésorka)
• Uyghur: تاجاۋۇزچى (tajawuzchi)
• Uzbek: agressor (uz), tajovuzkor (uz), bosqinchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: kẻ xâm lược
• Yiddish: אַגרעסער m (agreser)

Danish

Noun

aggressor c (singular definite aggressoren, plural indefinite aggressorer)

1. aggressor

Declension

Declension of aggressor

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aggressor	aggressoren	aggressorer	aggressorerne
genitive	aggressors	aggressorens	aggressorers	aggressorernes

Further reading

• “aggressor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

From aggredior (“attack, assault”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [äɡˈɡrɛs̠ːɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [äɡˈɡrɛsːor]

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aggressor	aggressōrēs
genitive	aggressōris	aggressōrum
dative	aggressōrī	aggressōribus
accusative	aggressōrem	aggressōrēs
ablative	aggressōre	aggressōribus
vocative	aggressor	aggressōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: agressor
• English: aggressor
• Middle French: aggresseur
• Italian: aggressore
• Portuguese: agressor
• Spanish: agresor

References

• “aggressor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aggressor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.