different between assaulter vs aggressor

English

Etymology

assault +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??lt?(?)

Noun

assaulter (plural assaulters)

1. One who commits assault.
   • 1861, The Dublin University Magazine (volume 57, page 530)

     Earnest assaulters of current theories, or earnest apologists for them, should alike have conducted attack or defence, as it seems to us, upon some more concerted plan.

   Synonym: assailant

Anagrams

• as a result, reassault, saleratus

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