seductor

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English seductor, seductour, from Middle French seducteur, from Latin sēductor.

Noun

seductor (plural seductors, feminine seductress)

  1. (obsolete) One who seduces.

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ctor”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 2: “a. OF. seducteur, ad. L. sēductor, agent-noun f. sēdūcĕre: see Seduce and -or.”

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From sēdūcō (“lead astray, seduce”) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

sēductor m (genitive sēductōris, feminine sēductrīx); third declension

  1. seducer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēductor sēductōrēs
Genitive sēductōris sēductōrum
Dative sēductōrī sēductōribus
Accusative sēductōrem sēductōrēs
Ablative sēductōre sēductōribus
Vocative sēductor sēductōrēs

References

  • “seductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • seductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French seducteur, from Latin sēductor.

Noun

seductor

  1. seducer
    • 1490, “Capitulo xvj”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by M T Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., , published 1890, page 60, lines 30–33:
      The whiche seductor of ladies, as parys that enwedded ye fayr heleyne, kepeth himself in maner as a woman, in their companye, wyth his longe heres that he maketh to be enoynted & kemed […]
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    • a. 1492, “Of saynt Apolonyon Religyous & martyr. begynnyng in latyn ¶ Trade hant ergo / Caplm xix.”, in Wyllyam Caxton, transl., Vitas Patrum, Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, published 1495, folio xxii, recto:
      […] one namyd Phylemon. whyche was moche amyable & debonayr to ye peple. & called hỹſelf ſeductour & deceyour of the peple / […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • English: seductor

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ctor”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 2: “a. OF. seducteur, ad. L. sēductor, agent-noun f. sēdūcĕre: see Seduce and -or.”

Spanish

Adjective

seductor (feminine seductora, masculine plural seductores, feminine plural seductoras)

  1. seductive
    Synonym: seductivo

Noun

seductor m (plural seductores, feminine seductora, feminine plural seductoras)

  1. seducer

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