different between benefactor vs philander

English

Alternative forms

• benefactour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English benefactor, borrowed from Medieval Latin benefactor (“he who bestows a favor”), from Latin benefaci? (“benefit someone”), from bene (“good”) + faci? (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: b?n'?f?kt?r, IPA^(key): /?b?n??fækt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?n??fakt?/
• Hyphenation: ben?e?fac?tor

Noun

benefactor (plural benefactors, feminine benefactress or benefactoress or benefactrix)

1. Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.
2. Someone who performs good or noble deeds.

Related terms

• benefactive
• benefactress
• benefactrix
• beneficiary (near antonym)
• beneficent

Translations

Catalan

Alternative forms

• benfactor

Etymology

From Late Latin benefactor.

Noun

benefactor m (plural benefactors, feminine benefactora)

1. benefactor

Related terms

• malfactor, malefactor

Further reading

• “benefactor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “benefactor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “benefactor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “benefactor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From benefaci? or benefactus +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /be.ne?fak.tor/, [b?n??fäkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.ne?fak.tor/, [b?n??f?kt??r]

Noun

benefactor m (genitive benefact?ris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) benefactor; one who confers a favour

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Antonyms

• malefactor

Related terms

• benefactus

Descendants

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin benefactor, from Latin benefacio. Compare the inherited doublet bienhechor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benefa??to?/, [be.ne.fa???t?o?]
• Hyphenation: be?ne?fac?tor

Noun

benefactor m (plural benefactores, feminine benefactora, feminine plural benefactoras)

1. benefactor

Related terms

• bienfacer

Further reading

• “benefactor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (phílandros, “loving men”), from ????? (philía, “love”) and ?????? (andrós), genitive case of ???? (an?r, “man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??lænd?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??lænd??/

Noun

philander (plural philanders)

1. A lover.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Congreve to this entry?)

2. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander, formerly Didelphis philander.
3. An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis, formerly Perameles lagotis.

Translations

Further reading

• philander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

philander (third-person singular simple present philanders, present participle philandering, simple past and past participle philandered)

1. (intransitive) To woo women; to play the male flirt.

   • You can't be philandering after her again.

Synonyms

• womanize, womanise

Derived terms

• philanderer, philandering

Translations