different between slayer vs conqueror

English

Alternative forms

• slayor

Etymology

From Middle English slear, sleere, sleare, slaare, dissimilated from Old English slaga (“slayer”), equivalent to slay +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sle??/
• Rhymes: -e??(r)

Noun

slayer (plural slayers)

1. a killer; a murderer; someone who slays

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:killer

Derived terms

• brother-slayer
• father-slayer
• manslayer

Translations

Anagrams

• Earlys, Layers, Learys, Raleys, Rayles, Salyer, Sayler, layers, re-lays, relays

English

Alternative forms

• conquerour, conquerer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English conquerour, from Old French conquereor, from conquerre; synchronically analyzable as conquer +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??k???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??k???/
• Hyphenation: con?quer?or

Noun

conqueror (plural conquerors)

1. Someone who conquers.

Synonyms

• vanquisher
• victor
• subjugator

Hyponyms

• (female conqueror): conqueress

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From con- +? queror.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.k?e.ror/, [?k??k????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.kwe.ror/, [?k??kw???r]

Verb

conqueror (present infinitive conquer?, perfect active conquestus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. I complain, bewail, lament
2. I deplore

Conjugation

References

• conqueror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conqueror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conqueror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.