infector

See also: infecter

English

Etymology

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, 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

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
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