traitorn.

Brit.

/ˈtreɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈtreɪdər/

Forms: α. Middle English treitre, Middle English traitre, traytre. β. Middle English traitur, traytur, Middle English–1600s traytour, (Middle English–1500s traytoure), Middle English–1700s traitour, Middle English traitoure, traitur(e, treitour, tretour, Middle English–1500s Scottish trature, tratour, Middle English tretowre. γ. Middle English Scottish tratore, Middle English traytore, Middle English–1700s traytor, Middle English– traitor. δ. 1500s traiter, 1500s–1600s trayter.

Etymology: < Old French nominative traitre (= Provençal traire, French traître) < popular Latin trāˈdītor for Latin ˈtrāditor traitor, betrayer; also in accusative form Old French traitor, -ur (Roland, 11th cent.), Anglo-Norman -our (= Italian traditore, Spanish traidor, Portuguese traidor, Provençal traidor, Sardinian traitore) < Latin trādiˈtōrem, agent-noun < trādĕre to deliver, hand over, < trā- (= trans) + dare to give, put.

1. One who betrays any person that trusts him, or any duty entrusted to him; a betrayer. In early use often applied to Judas Iscariot.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treacherous person

swikec1000

adderOE

traitor?c1225

Scariotc1380

murdererc1390

Judasc1405

proditor1436

cuckoo1581

Sinon1581

treachetour1590

viper1596

serpent1600

snakea1616

tradenta1626

Iscariot1647

dog1846

double-crosser1888

two-timer1927

α.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 145 Ha biswikeð ow & is ower treitre.

c1230 Hali Meid. 9 Ha habbeð itricchet te as treitres.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. lviij/2 To al crysten men thou hast ben traytre.

β., γ.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 435 Pieres þe plowman.. trauailleth & tulyeth for a tretour also sore As for a trewe tydy man.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xiv. 44 The traitour hadde ȝouun to hem a tokene.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11530 He was traitur, fals in fai.c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 29 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 151 Þat wekit tratore Iudas.c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 242 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 229 Þo he wyste he suld be traytore.1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. ciii In the place of the traytor Judas.1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra vii. 17 Said Christ, even to the very Traytour that did seek and suck his blood.1860 M. Arnold St. Brandan in Fraser's Mag. July 133 It is—Oh, where shall Brandan fly?—The traitor Judas, out of Hell!

2. spec. One who is false to his allegiance to his sovereign or to the government of his country; one adjudged guilty of treason (including formerly petit treason) or of any crime so regarded. Also figurative or in extended sense. Traitor's Gate, the river gate of the Tower of London by which traitors, and state prisoners generally, were committed to the Tower. In quot. 1678 at γ. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government

traitorc1290

treason-worker1553

treacherer1571

treacher1591

Catiline1592

patricide1593

treason-monger1746

treasonist1796

parricide1853

fifth-columnist1940

α.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 48 Slewe the traytre Goribalde.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxvii. 176 Yf ony were vntrew & suche a traytre that wold destroye his countrey.

γ. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 38/146 ‘Ey, traytours’, quath þe luþere Quen.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10693 In gibet hii were an honge, as to more vilte,..& so hii miȝte lerni traitour to be.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11889 Aha! traiturs..i sale Hing yow bot ye mak me hale.1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 111/2 He to be juged and demed as a Traitour, and suche execution to be don upon his body, as shuld be don uppon a Traitour atteint of hie Treson.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 19 Maknab, a fals tratour.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7899 But the triet men of Troy traitur hym cald.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. vi. 6 Turne thy false face thou traytor . a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 103 Vnlesse I proue false traitor to my selfe. 1678 Young Man's Calling 31 Man enters into the world at traitors gate; born in sin, and conceived in iniquity.1713 J. Addison Late Tryal Count Tariff ⁋23 He called [him] a lyar [and] a traytor.a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 157 If the telling may Beget the Traitour's Infamy.1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 146 He is a traitor, and betray'd the state.1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. iii. 49 [Did] we not hack the limbs of our traitors, and stick them up on Temple Bar?1914 N.E.D. at Traitor Mod. A traitor in the camp; a traitor to the cause.δ. 1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. Eiii^v [They] ought to be adiudged traitours.1642 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 242 Those thatt told you he was a trayter.

Compounds

C1. attributive or as adj. That is a traitor, traitorous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective]

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treasonable1487

proditiousa1500

proditorya1500

unfaithful1530

trustless1554

traitorlya1586

Punic1590

truce-breaking1592

faiterous1600

Iscarioticala1625

betraying1629

infide1663

traditoriana1734

Iscariotic1879

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective]

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proditorious?a1475

fraudfulc1475

proditiousa1500

proditorya1500

perfidiousa1538

snakya1586

traitorlya1586

Punic1590

traitor-wise1598

faiterous1600

Iscarioticala1625

Judaslya1626

fidious1640

traditoriana1734

double-crossing1838

Judasian1855

Iscariotic1879

two-timing1927

two-time1937

quisling1941

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4397 Ne herd yee na wight how Yon traitur juu me wald sceind.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 275 A tretour boteler that kyng Marahans sone poysoned.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox & Wolf l. 670 in Poems (1981) 29 This wylie tratour tod On kneis fell.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 102 False Mowbray..consequently like a taitour [sic; 1623 Traitor] coward, Slucte out his innocent soule through streames of bloud.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 45 Th' assassinating Wife, the Houshold Fiend; And far the blackest there, the Traytor-Friend.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 93 He drew his traytor sword, And like a lion rush'd against his Lord.

1837 A. Tennent Vis. Glencoe 18 Some traitor spy, Meant to betray thee with a lie.

1887 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. IV. 837/2 Judas the traitor-Apostle.

C2. traitor-led adj.

ΚΠ

1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ sig. Gij^v Traitor-led troopes by night did apprehend him.

Derivatives

traitor-like adj. and adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adverb]

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swikinglyc1175

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swikefullya1500

Judasly1508

traditorously1536

Judas-like?1569

perfidiously1589

traitor-like1594

1594 Warres Cyrus 794 Or else Libanio..should die for his so traitorlike reuolt.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. l. 389 Heavy tidings came..that the French had won Calais..: for, traitor-like, it was said to be sold and delivered unto them.

traitor-wise adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective]

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lewec1000

swikelc1000

swikefulc1100

culvert?c1225

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snakya1586

traitorlya1586

Punic1590

traitor-wise1598

faiterous1600

Iscarioticala1625

Judaslya1626

fidious1640

traditoriana1734

double-crossing1838

Judasian1855

Iscariotic1879

two-timing1927

two-time1937

quisling1941

1598 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 210 Reputed by our Prince and countrye as trayterwise and disloyal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	traitor
释义	traitorn. Brit. /ˈtreɪtə/, U.S. /ˈtreɪdər/ Forms: α. Middle English treitre, Middle English traitre, traytre. β. Middle English traitur, traytur, Middle English–1600s traytour, (Middle English–1500s traytoure), Middle English–1700s traitour, Middle English traitoure, traitur(e, treitour, tretour, Middle English–1500s Scottish trature, tratour, Middle English tretowre. γ. Middle English Scottish tratore, Middle English traytore, Middle English–1700s traytor, Middle English– traitor. δ. 1500s traiter, 1500s–1600s trayter. Etymology: < Old French nominative traitre (= Provençal traire, French traître) < popular Latin trāˈdītor for Latin ˈtrāditor traitor, betrayer; also in accusative form Old French traitor, -ur (Roland, 11th cent.), Anglo-Norman -our (= Italian traditore, Spanish traidor, Portuguese traidor, Provençal traidor, Sardinian traitore) < Latin trādiˈtōrem, agent-noun < trādĕre to deliver, hand over, < trā- (= trans) + dare to give, put. 1. One who betrays any person that trusts him, or any duty entrusted to him; a betrayer. In early use often applied to Judas Iscariot. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treacherous person swikec1000 adderOE traitor?c1225 Scariotc1380 murdererc1390 Judasc1405 proditor1436 cuckoo1581 Sinon1581 treachetour1590 viper1596 serpent1600 snakea1616 tradenta1626 Iscariot1647 dog1846 double-crosser1888 two-timer1927 α. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 145 Ha biswikeð ow & is ower treitre. c1230 Hali Meid. 9 Ha habbeð itricchet te as treitres. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. lviij/2 To al crysten men thou hast ben traytre. β., γ.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 435 Pieres þe plowman.. trauailleth & tulyeth for a tretour also sore As for a trewe tydy man.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xiv. 44 The traitour hadde ȝouun to hem a tokene.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11530 He was traitur, fals in fai.c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 29 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 151 Þat wekit tratore Iudas.c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 242 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 229 Þo he wyste he suld be traytore.1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. ciii In the place of the traytor Judas.1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra vii. 17 Said Christ, even to the very Traytour that did seek and suck his blood.1860 M. Arnold St. Brandan in Fraser's Mag. July 133 It is—Oh, where shall Brandan fly?—The traitor Judas, out of Hell! 2. spec. One who is false to his allegiance to his sovereign or to the government of his country; one adjudged guilty of treason (including formerly petit treason) or of any crime so regarded. Also figurative or in extended sense. Traitor's Gate, the river gate of the Tower of London by which traitors, and state prisoners generally, were committed to the Tower. In quot. 1678 at γ. figurative. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government traitorc1290 treason-worker1553 treacherer1571 treacher1591 Catiline1592 patricide1593 treason-monger1746 treasonist1796 parricide1853 fifth-columnist1940 α. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 48 Slewe the traytre Goribalde. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxvii. 176 Yf ony were vntrew & suche a traytre that wold destroye his countrey. γ. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 38/146 ‘Ey, traytours’, quath þe luþere Quen.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10693 In gibet hii were an honge, as to more vilte,..& so hii miȝte lerni traitour to be.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11889 Aha! traiturs..i sale Hing yow bot ye mak me hale.1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 111/2 He to be juged and demed as a Traitour, and suche execution to be don upon his body, as shuld be don uppon a Traitour atteint of hie Treson.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 19 Maknab, a fals tratour.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7899 But the triet men of Troy traitur hym cald.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. vi. 6 Turne thy false face thou traytor . View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 103 Vnlesse I proue false traitor to my selfe. View more context for this quotation1678 Young Man's Calling 31 Man enters into the world at traitors gate; born in sin, and conceived in iniquity.1713 J. Addison Late Tryal Count Tariff ⁋23 He called [him] a lyar [and] a traytor.a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 157 If the telling may Beget the Traitour's Infamy.1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 146 He is a traitor, and betray'd the state.1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. iii. 49 [Did] we not hack the limbs of our traitors, and stick them up on Temple Bar?1914 N.E.D. at Traitor Mod. A traitor in the camp; a traitor to the cause.δ. 1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. Eiii^v [They] ought to be adiudged traitours.1642 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 242 Those thatt told you he was a trayter. Compounds C1. attributive or as adj. That is a traitor, traitorous. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective] lewec1000 culvert?c1225 false?c1225 fokela1275 colwardc1330 treacherousc1330 traitorousc1380 traitora1400 treasonfula1400 traitorfulc1440 treasonousc1450 treasonable1487 proditiousa1500 proditorya1500 unfaithful1530 trustless1554 traitorlya1586 Punic1590 truce-breaking1592 faiterous1600 Iscarioticala1625 betraying1629 infide1663 traditoriana1734 Iscariotic1879 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective] swikec893 lewec1000 swikelc1000 swikefulc1100 culvert?c1225 fokela1275 colwardc1330 treacherousc1330 traitorousc1380 traitora1400 treacherc1400 traitorfulc1440 proditorious?a1475 fraudfulc1475 proditiousa1500 proditorya1500 perfidiousa1538 snakya1586 traitorlya1586 Punic1590 traitor-wise1598 faiterous1600 Iscarioticala1625 Judaslya1626 fidious1640 traditoriana1734 double-crossing1838 Judasian1855 Iscariotic1879 two-timing1927 two-time1937 quisling1941 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4397 Ne herd yee na wight how Yon traitur juu me wald sceind. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 275 A tretour boteler that kyng Marahans sone poysoned. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox & Wolf l. 670 in Poems (1981) 29 This wylie tratour tod On kneis fell. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 102 False Mowbray..consequently like a taitour [sic; 1623 Traitor] coward, Slucte out his innocent soule through streames of bloud. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 45 Th' assassinating Wife, the Houshold Fiend; And far the blackest there, the Traytor-Friend. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 93 He drew his traytor sword, And like a lion rush'd against his Lord. 1837 A. Tennent Vis. Glencoe 18 Some traitor spy, Meant to betray thee with a lie. 1887 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. IV. 837/2 Judas the traitor-Apostle. C2. traitor-led adj. ΚΠ 1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ sig. Gij^v Traitor-led troopes by night did apprehend him. Derivatives traitor-like adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adverb] swikellya1023 swikinglyc1175 hinderfullichec1200 traitorouslyc1330 treacherouslya1340 traitorly?a1349 treacherlyc1394 traitouslyc1450 proditoriouslyc1460 traditoriouslyc1487 swikefullya1500 Judasly1508 traditorously1536 Judas-like?1569 perfidiously1589 traitor-like1594 1594 Warres Cyrus 794 Or else Libanio..should die for his so traitorlike reuolt. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. l. 389 Heavy tidings came..that the French had won Calais..: for, traitor-like, it was said to be sold and delivered unto them. traitor-wise adv. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [adjective] swikec893 lewec1000 swikelc1000 swikefulc1100 culvert?c1225 fokela1275 colwardc1330 treacherousc1330 traitorousc1380 traitora1400 treacherc1400 traitorfulc1440 proditorious?a1475 fraudfulc1475 proditiousa1500 proditorya1500 perfidiousa1538 snakya1586 traitorlya1586 Punic1590 traitor-wise1598 faiterous1600 Iscarioticala1625 Judaslya1626 fidious1640 traditoriana1734 double-crossing1838 Judasian1855 Iscariotic1879 two-timing1927 two-time1937 quisling1941 1598 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 210 Reputed by our Prince and countrye as trayterwise and disloyal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † traitorv. Etymology: < traitor n. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To make (any one) a traitor. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [verb (transitive)] > make traitor16.. society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > be a traitor to [verb (transitive)] > induce to become a traitor traitor16.. quislingize1940 turn1963 to turn around1963 to turn round1966 16.. W. Lithgow in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864) But time, it traitors me. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 23 Most woful Wretch, whom shining Hair and Eyes, Lead to Love's Dungeon, traitor'd by a Sight. 2. intransitive. To act as a traitor. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > act treacherously [verb (intransitive)] > act as traitor traitor1656 traitorize1656 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 5 If it be said, that the King traytor'd such, or as it related to himself only. 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traitorn.

Compounds

Derivatives

† traitorv.