English

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.

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Italian

Noun

traditor m ‎(invariable)

1. apocopic form of traditore

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtraː.di.tor/, [ˈtraː.dɪ.tɔr]

Noun

trāditor m ‎(genitive trāditōris); third declension

1. betrayer, traitor
2. teacher

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• trāditiō

Descendants

• English: traitor
• French: traître
• Italian: traditore
• Portuguese: traidor
• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “traditor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.