protestor

English

Etymology

From protest +‎ -or.

Noun

protestor (plural protestors)

1. Alternative spelling of protester
   • 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:

     No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]

   • 2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 43:

     We also talk about dealing with protestors, whose actions are creating additional costs of tens of millions of pounds.

Latin

Etymology

From prō- +‎ testor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proːˈtes.tor/, [proːˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈtes.tor/, [proˈt̪ɛst̪or]

Verb

prōtestor (present infinitive prōtestārī, perfect active prōtestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to testify, bear witness, attest
2. to protest

Conjugation

   Conjugation of prōtestor (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	prōtestor	prōtestāris, prōtestāre	prōtestātur	prōtestāmur	prōtestāminī	prōtestantur
	imperfect	prōtestābar	prōtestābāris, prōtestābāre	prōtestābātur	prōtestābāmur	prōtestābāminī	prōtestābantur
	future	prōtestābor	prōtestāberis, prōtestābere	prōtestābitur	prōtestābimur	prōtestābiminī	prōtestābuntur
	perfect	prōtestātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	prōtestātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	prōtestātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	prōtester	prōtestēris, prōtestēre	prōtestētur	prōtestēmur	prōtestēminī	prōtestentur
imperfect	prōtestārer	prōtestārēris, prōtestārēre	prōtestārētur	prōtestārēmur	prōtestārēminī	prōtestārentur
perfect	prōtestātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	prōtestātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	prōtestāre	—	—	prōtestāminī	—
	future	—	prōtestātor	prōtestātor	—	—	prōtestantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		prōtestārī	prōtestātum esse	prōtestātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		prōtestāns	prōtestātus	prōtestātūrus	—	—	prōtestandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		prōtestandī	prōtestandō	prōtestandum	prōtestandō	prōtestātum	prōtestātū

Descendants

• Catalan: protestar
• English: protest
• French: protester
• Galician: protestar
• Italian: protestare
• Portuguese: protestar
• Spanish: protestar
• Romanian: protesta

References

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