infector

See also: infecter

English

Etymology

From infect +‎ -or.

Noun

infector (plural infectors)

1. 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, →DOI, 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

Etymology

īnfectus, perfect passive participle of īnficiō (“to infect”) +‎ -tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [ĩːˈfɛkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfek.tor/, [iɱˈfɛkt̪or]

Noun

īnfector m (genitive īnfectōris); third declension

1. dyer (one who dyes)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnfector	īnfectōrēs
Genitive	īnfectōris	īnfectōrum
Dative	īnfectōrī	īnfectōribus
Accusative	īnfectōrem	īnfectōrēs
Ablative	īnfectōre	īnfectōribus
Vocative	īnfector	īnfectōrēs

References

• “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