traditor

English

Etymology

From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“I hand over”). Doublet of traitor.

Noun

traditor (plural traditors or traditores)

1. A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
   • 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:

     A number of bishops cooperated with him , piqued that they had not been called to the ordination of Cæcilian . Seventy bishops , a number of whom had been traditors , met thus together at Carthage , to depose Cæcilian.

References

• “traditor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Noun

traditor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of traditore

Latin

Etymology

From trādō (“give up, hand over”) +‎ -tor; literally "one who hands over (something)".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪ɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtra.di.tor/, [ˈt̪räːd̪it̪or]

Noun

trāditor m (genitive trāditōris, feminine trāditrīx); third declension (post-Augustan)

1. betrayer, traitor

   Synonyms: prōditor, index

2. teacher

   Synonym: magister

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	trāditor	trāditōrēs
genitive	trāditōris	trāditōrum
dative	trāditōrī	trāditōribus
accusative	trāditōrem	trāditōrēs
ablative	trāditōre	trāditōribus
vocative	trāditor	trāditōrēs

Related terms

• trāditiō

Descendants

• Albanian: tradhtar, tradhëtar
• Breton: treitour
• Catalan: traïdor
• Dutch: treiteren
• Haitian Creole: trèt
• Italian: traditore
• Occitan: traïdor, traite
• Old French: traitor, traïtor
  • French: traître
  • Norman: traître (Jersey)
  • Walloon: traite
  • → Middle English: traytour, traitour, traitor
    • English: traitor
    • → Middle Irish: trétúir
      • Irish: tréatúir
• Old Occitan: trachor
• Old Galician-Portuguese: traedor
  • Galician: traidor
  • Portuguese: traidor
• Piedmontese: traditor/traditur
• Romanian: trădător
• Sicilian: tradituri, trajituri
• Spanish: traidor

References

• “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “traditor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• traditor 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)
• traditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• traditur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tradiˈtur/

Noun

traditor m (plural traditor)

1. traitor