different between fornicator vs committer

English

Alternative forms

• fornicatour (obsolete)

Etymology

fornicate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??(?).n?.ke?.t?(?)/

Noun

fornicator (plural fornicators)

1. An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.
   • 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2

     (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Related terms

• fornicatress, fornicatresses f (very rare)
• fornicatrix, fornicatrices f (very rare)

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Derived from fornicor (“to fornicate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /for.ni?ka?.tor/, [f?rn??kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /for.ni?ka.tor/, [f?rni?k??t??r]

Noun

fornic?tor m (genitive fornic?t?ris, feminine fornic?tr?x); third declension

1. fornicator (male)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• fornic?rius

Related terms

• fornic?tr?x

Descendants

• French: fornicateur
• Italian: fornicatore

References

• fornicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fornicator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fornicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

commit +? -er

Noun

committer (plural committers)

1. A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.

   • For some here affirm , that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin , because in most sinful Actions , the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits

2. (obsolete) A fornicator.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Decker to this entry?)

3. (computing) A person who is authorized to make changes to software source code in a source control repository.