aggressor

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See also: Aggressor

English

Alternative forms

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.
    • 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 2:37 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
      Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Noun

aggressor c (singular definite aggressoren, plural indefinite aggressorer)

  1. aggressor

Declension

Declension of aggressor
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative aggressor aggressoren aggressorer aggressorerne
genitive aggressors aggressorens aggressorers aggressorernes

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From aggredior (“attack, assault”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

  1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative aggressor aggressōrēs
genitive aggressōris aggressōrum
dative aggressōrī aggressōribus
accusative aggressōrem aggressōrēs
ablative aggressōre aggressōribus
vocative aggressor aggressōrēs

Descendants

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.
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