traditor

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

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.

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

traditor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of traditore

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

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

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

1. betrayer, traitor

   Synonyms: prōditor, index

2. teacher

   Synonym: magister

Third-declension noun.

• trāditiō

• “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.

• traditur

• IPA^(key): /tradiˈtur/

traditor m (plural traditor)

1. traitor