persecutor
English
Alternative forms
- persecutour (obsolete)
- persecuter (rare)
Etymology
From Middle English persecutour, from Old French persecutor and Latin persecūtor. Displaced native Old English ēhtere.
Translations
a person or thing that persecutes
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Latin
Etymology
From persequor, persecutus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /per.seˈkuː.tor/, [pɛrs̠ɛˈkuːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /per.seˈku.tor/, [perseˈkuːt̪or]
Noun
persecūtor m (genitive persecūtōris); third declension
- pursuer
- de mortibus persecutorum.
- On the Deaths of the Persecutors. (Book by Lactantius)
- de mortibus persecutorum.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) persecutor of Christians
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
- English: persecutor, persecute
- French: persécuteur
- Italian: persecutore
- Spanish: persecutor
References
- “persecutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- persecutor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French persécuteur.
Declension
Declension of persecutor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) persecutor | persecutorul | (niște) persecutori | persecutorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) persecutor | persecutorului | (unor) persecutori | persecutorilor |
vocative | persecutorule | persecutorilor |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin persecutor, from Latin persecutus.
Further reading
- “persecutor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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