aggressor

See also: Aggressor

English

Alternative forms
  • aggressour (obsolete)

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.

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aɡˈɡres.sor/, [aɡˈɡrɛs.sɔr]

Noun

aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension

  1. attacker, assailant, aggressor

Inflection

Third declension.

Case 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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