detractor

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

  1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
    • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)
      Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

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Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈtrak.tor/, [deːˈtrak.tɔr]

Noun

dētractor m (genitive dētractōris); third declension

  1. detractor, disparager

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dētractor dētractōrēs
Genitive dētractōris dētractōrum
Dative dētractōrī dētractōribus
Accusative dētractōrem dētractōrēs
Ablative dētractōre dētractōribus
Vocative dētractor dētractōrēs

Verb

dētractor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

References
  • detractor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • detractor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • detractor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)

  1. detractor
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