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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese traedor, from Latin trāditor, trāditorem (“traitor”).
Adjective
traidor (feminine traidora, masculine plural traidores, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitorous (characteristic of a traitor)
- Synonym: traizoeiro
- which betrays (reveals unintentionally)
Derived terms
Noun
traidor m (plural traidores, feminine traidora, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitor (one who betrays)
- Synonym: traizoeiro
Related terms
References
- “traidor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “traidor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “traidor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “traidor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “traidor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Further reading
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese traedor, from Latin trāditōrem (“traitor”), from trādō (“to give over”), from trāns (“across, beyond”) + dō (“to give”).
Pronunciation
Noun
traidor m (plural traidores, feminine traidora, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitor (one who betrays)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:traidor
Adjective
traidor (feminine traidora, masculine plural traidores, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitorous (characteristic of a traitor)
- Synonyms: aleivoso, desleal, enganador, mentiroso, pérfido, traiçoeiro
- Antonyms: fiel, franco, leal
- which betrays (reveals unintentionally)
- Synonym: revelador
Related terms
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish traydor, traïdor, traedor, related to Old Spanish traer (“to betray”) and perhaps a semi-learned borrowing from Latin trāditōrem (“traitor, betrayer”) (the main evidence being its use with a hiatus -aï- in Berceo), from Latin trādō, trādere (“to hand over, abandon something”), from trāns (“across, beyond”) + dō (“to give”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾaiˈdoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: trai‧dor
Adjective
traidor (feminine traidora, masculine plural traidores, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitorous (characteristic of a traitor)
- Synonym: traicionero
- unpredictable
- Synonym: impredecible
Derived terms
Noun
traidor m (plural traidores, feminine traidora, feminine plural traidoras)
- traitor, betrayer, snake, backstabber
- Synonym: traicionero
Related terms
Further reading
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “dar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 426
- “traidor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish traidor (“traitor”).
Pronunciation
Noun
traidór (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜌ᜔ᜇᜓᜇ᜔)
- traitor; recreant
- Synonyms: taksil, lilo, sukab
Derived terms
Related terms
Adjective
traidór (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜌ᜔ᜇᜓᜇ᜔)
- treacherous
- Synonyms: taksil, lilo, sukab
Further reading