different between mugger vs aggressor

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Etymology 1

mug +? -er

Noun

mugger (plural muggers)

1. A street robber.
2. A person who makes exaggerated faces, as a performance; a gurner.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hindi.

Noun

mugger (plural muggers)

1. A large crocodile, Crocodilus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

   Synonyms: marsh crocodile, mugger crocodile, Muggy McCroc

Translations

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