frustrator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frūstrātor. Doublet of frustrater.

Noun

frustrator (plural frustrators)

1. Someone who frustrates (hinders, thwarts, disconcerts) the plans or aims of another person.
   • 2003, L. R. Scheman, Greater America, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

     Technology will be the ultimate facilitator or frustrator of international crime. In either case, the United States will be at the center as the principal exporter or victim of criminal activity.

Latin

Verb

frūstrātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of frūstrō

Noun

frūstrātor m (genitive frūstrātōris); third declension

1. a deceiver, delayer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	frūstrātor	frūstrātōrēs
genitive	frūstrātōris	frūstrātōrum
dative	frūstrātōrī	frūstrātōribus
accusative	frūstrātōrem	frūstrātōrēs
ablative	frūstrātōre	frūstrātōribus
vocative	frūstrātor	frūstrātōrēs

References

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