aggressor

== English == === Alternative forms === aggressour (obsolete) === Etymology === From Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɡɹɛsə/ (US, Canada) IPA(key): /əˈɡɹɛsɚ/ === Noun === aggressor (plural aggressors) The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Danish == === Noun === aggressor c (singular definite aggressoren, plural indefinite aggressorer) aggressor ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “aggressor” in Den Danske Ordbog == Latin == === Etymology === From aggredior (“attack, assault”) +‎ -tor (agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɡˈɡrɛs.sɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aɡˈɡrɛs.sor] === Noun === aggressor m (genitive aggressōris); third declension attacker, assailant, aggressor ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: agressor English: aggressor Middle French: aggresseur Italian: aggressore Portuguese: agressor Spanish: agresor === 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.