assertor

English

Etymology

From assert +‎ -or.

Noun

assertor (plural assertors)

1. One who asserts or avers.
   • 2017 Mario von der Ruhr, et al: Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy; →ISBN

     When Wittgenstein says that he cannot contradict the assertor of a Last Judgement, he uses (repeatedly) the first person singular. There is no argument that the impossibility of his contradicting the man is a result of his not himself being a religious man, or not being a participant in any religious life, the result, that is, of some condition such that, if anyone were in that condition, he also would not be able to contradict the assertor. He mentions the case of an atheist who does contradict the assertor, and asks whether the atheist means the same by a Last Judgement as does the assertor, but replies that the criterion for meaning the same isn't clear.

2. One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
   • 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:

     [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]

Alternative forms

• asserter

Derived terms

• assertress

 

Anagrams

• Serratos, assorter, oratress, reassort, reroasts, roasters

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsertor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /asˈser.tor/, [äs̠ˈs̠ɛrt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈser.tor/, [äsˈsɛrt̪or]

Noun

assertor m (genitive assertōris); third declension

1. assertor
2. restorer or champion of liberty

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	assertor	assertōrēs
genitive	assertōris	assertōrum
dative	assertōrī	assertōribus
accusative	assertōrem	assertōrēs
ablative	assertōre	assertōribus
vocative	assertor	assertōrēs

References

• “assertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assertor 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)
• assertor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assertor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “assertor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin