calumniator
English
Etymology
From Latin calumniātor.[1]
Noun
calumniator (plural calumniators)
- A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal:
- He did not go to the police and cover the calumniator with infamy before the tribunals.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “calumniator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.lum.niˈaː.tor/, [käɫ̪ʊmniˈäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.lum.niˈa.tor/, [kälumniˈäːt̪or]
Noun
calumniātor m (genitive calumniātōris, feminine calumniātrīx); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- → English: calumniator
- French: calomniateur
- Italian: calunniatore
- Portuguese: caluniador
- Romanian: calomniator
- Spanish: calumniador
References
- “calumniator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calumniator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calumniator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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