different between christian vs traditor

Middle English

Adjective

christian

1. Alternative form of Cristien

Old French

Adjective

christian m (oblique and nominative feminine singular christiane)

1. Alternative form of chrestien

English

Etymology

From Latin traditor (“betrayer”), from trado (“I hand over”). See traitor.

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.
   • 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.

References

• traditor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Noun

traditor m (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of traditore

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tra?.di.tor/, [?t??ä?d??t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tra.di.tor/, [?t????d?it??r]

Noun

tr?ditor m (genitive tr?dit?ris, feminine tr?ditr?x); third declension

1. betrayer, traitor
2. teacher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• tr?diti?

Descendants

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)
• traditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• traditur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tradi?tur/

Noun

traditor m (plural traditor)

1. traitor