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English
Etymology
protest + -or
Noun
protestor (plural protestors)
- Alternative spelling of protester
2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 43:We also talk about dealing with protestors, whose actions are creating additional costs of tens of millions of pounds.
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + testor.
Pronunciation
Verb
prōtestor (present infinitive prōtestārī, perfect active prōtestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to testify, bear witness
- to protest
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “protestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- protestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.