detractor

English

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Etymology

From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

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Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

  1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
    Synonyms: slanderer, libeler, cynic, mudslinger, defamer, critic
    Antonyms: proponent, promoter, supporter
    • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎:
      Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

dētractor m (genitive dētractōris); third declension

  1. detractor, disparager

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dētractor dētractōrēs
Genitive dētractōris dētractōrum
Dative dētractōrī dētractōribus
Accusative dētractōrem dētractōrēs
Ablative dētractōre dētractōribus
Vocative dētractor dētractōrēs

Verb

dētractor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French détracteur.

Noun

detractor m (plural detractori)

  1. detractor

Declension
Declension of detractor
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) detractor detractorul (niște) detractori detractorii
genitive/dative (unui) detractor detractorului (unor) detractori detractorilor
vocative detractorule detractorilor

Spanish

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Noun

detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)

  1. detractor

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