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English

Alternative forms

• aggressour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”)

Noun

aggressor (plural aggressors)

1. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Translations

Danish

Noun

aggressor c (singular definite aggressoren, plural indefinite aggressorer)

1. aggressor

Declension

Further reading

• “aggressor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

From aggredior (“attack, assault”) +? -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a???res.sor/, [ä???r?s???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a???res.sor/, [????r?s??r]

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggress?ris); third declension

1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: agressor
• English: aggressor
• French: agresseur
• Italian: aggressore
• Portuguese: agressor
• Spanish: agresor

References

• aggressor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aggressor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

aggress (uncountable)

1. Aggression. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Verb

aggress (third-person singular simple present aggresses, present participle aggressing, simple past and past participle aggressed)

1. (transitive) To set upon; to attack.
2. (intransitive, construed with on) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.

Derived terms

• microaggress

Related terms

• aggression
• aggressive
• aggressiveness
• aggressor

Further reading

• aggress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aggress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• saggers, seggars