infector
Appearance
See also: infecter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]infector (plural infectors)
- Something that infects; that which causes infection.
- 2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science[1], volume 289, number 5486, , pages 1863–1865:
- That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a "boot-sector infector" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]īnfectus, perfect passive participle of īnficiō (“to infect”) + -tor
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [ĩːˈfɛkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [iɱˈfɛkt̪or]
Noun
[edit]īnfector m (genitive īnfectōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | īnfector | īnfectōrēs |
genitive | īnfectōris | īnfectōrum |
dative | īnfectōrī | īnfectōribus |
accusative | īnfectōrem | īnfectōrēs |
ablative | īnfectōre | īnfectōribus |
vocative | īnfector | īnfectōrēs |
References
[edit]- “infector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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