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单词 traditor
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Definition of traditor in English:

traditor

noun ˈtradɪtə
  • 1A traitor; a person who betrays someone or something. Now rare.

  • 2Church History. In the early Christian church: a person who surrendered sacred books and vessels or betrayed fellow Christians in times of persecution to save his or her own life.

  • 3A person who transmits or sustains a tradition, especially (in later use) an oral tradition. rare before 20th cent.

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in Knyghthode and Bataile. From classical Latin trāditor person who hands over, traitor, betrayer, in post-classical Latin also teacher (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), person who hands over sacred books to their persecutors from trādit-, past participial stem of trādere + -or.

 
 

Definition of traditor in US English:

traditor

nounˈtradɪtə
  • 1A traitor; a person who betrays someone or something. Now rare.

  • 2Church History. In the early Christian church: a person who surrendered sacred books and vessels or betrayed fellow Christians in times of persecution to save his or her own life.

  • 3A person who transmits or sustains a tradition, especially (in later use) an oral tradition. rare before 20th cent.

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in Knyghthode and Bataile. From classical Latin trāditor person who hands over, traitor, betrayer, in post-classical Latin also teacher (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), person who hands over sacred books to their persecutors from trādit-, past participial stem of trādere + -or.

 
 
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