different between traditor vs traitor

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

English

Alternative forms

• traitour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin tr?ditor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?e?t?(?)/
• (US) enPR: tr??t?r, IPA^(key): /?t?e?t?/, [?t??e???]
• Homophone: trader (in dialects with flapping)
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

traitor (plural traitors)

1. Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished
2. Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country.
3. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust.

   Synonyms: betrayer, fink

Translations

See also

• Benedict Arnold
• Quisling
• Judas

Verb

traitor (third-person singular simple present traitors, present participle traitoring, simple past and past participle traitored)

1. To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.

Translations

Adjective

traitor (comparative more traitor, superlative most traitor)

1. traitorous

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Translations

Old French

Alternative forms

• traïtor

Etymology

Adaptation of Latin tr?ditor, tr?ditorem.

Noun

traitor m (oblique plural traitors, nominative singular traitre, nominative plural traitor)

1. traitor

Related terms

• traïson

Descendants

• French: traître
• Norman: traître (Jersey)
• Walloon: traite
• ? Middle English: traytour, traitour, traitor
  • English: traitor
  • ? Middle Irish: trétúir
    • Irish: tréatúir

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tr?ditor, tr?ditorem.

Noun

traitor m (oblique plural traitors, nominative singular traitors, nominative plural traitor)

1. traitor

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “traditor”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 01, page 02