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English
Etymology
From Latin perpetrātor.[1] By surface analysis, perpetrate + -or.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pɪˌtɹeɪt.ə(ɹ)/
Noun
perpetrator (plural perpetrators)
- One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
perpetrator of violence
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who perpetrates
- Belarusian: парушальнік m (parušalʹnik), парушальніца f (parušalʹnica), віноўнік m (vinóŭnik), віноўніца f (vinóŭnica)
- Bulgarian: извърши́тел (bg) m (izvǎršítel), вино́вник (bg) m (vinóvnik)
- Catalan: perpetrador (ca) m (especially for crimes)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 作案者 (zuò'ànzhě), 犯罪者 (zh) (fànzuìzhě), 實施犯罪的人 / 实施犯罪的人 (shíshī fànzuì de rén), 肇事者 (zh) (zhàoshìzhě), 實施者 / 实施者 (shíshīzhě)
- Danish: gerningsmand (da) c
- Dutch: dader (nl) m, bedrijver (nl) m
- Finnish: tekijä (fi), syyllinen (fi)
- French: coupable (fr) m or f
- Georgian: დამნაშავე (damnašave)
- German: Täter (de) m, Täterin (de) f, Schuldiger (de) m, Schuldige (de) f
- Greek: δράστης (el) m (drástis)
- Ancient: αὐθέντης m (authéntēs)
- Hungarian: elkövető (hu), bűnelkövető (hu)
- Indonesian: pelaku (id)
- Japanese: 加害者 (ja) (かがいしゃ, kagaisha)
- Korean: 가해자 (ko) (gahaeja)
- Latin: patrātor m
- Macedonian: сторител m (storitel)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gjerningsmann (no) m
- Nynorsk: gjerningsmann m
- Polish: sprawca (pl) m, sprawczyni (pl) f, winowajca (pl) m, winowajczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: perpetrador (pt) m
- Romanian: făptaș (ro) m, făptuitor (ro) m, vinovatul m, vinovata
- Russian: наруши́тель (ru) m (narušítelʹ), наруши́тельница (ru) f (narušítelʹnica), вино́вник (ru) m (vinóvnik), вино́вница (ru) f (vinóvnica)
- Spanish: perpetrador (es) m
- Swedish: gärningsman (sv) c
- Turkish: fail (tr), sanık (tr), suçlu (tr), mücrim (tr), suç işleyen kimse
- Ukrainian: винува́тець m (vynuvátecʹ), винува́тиця f (vynuvátycja), зловми́сник m (zlovmýsnyk), зловми́сниця f (zlovmýsnycja), пору́шник m (porúšnyk), пору́шниця f (porúšnycja)
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Latin
Verb
perpetrātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of perpetrō
References
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
