English
Etymology
From Latin dēfector.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɛktə(ɹ)/
Noun
defector (plural defectors)
- One who defects.
Derived terms
Translations
one who defects
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: перабе́жчык m (pjerabjéžčyk), перабе́жчыца f (pjerabjéžčyca), дэзерці́р m (dezjercír), дэзэрты́р m (dezertýr)
- Bulgarian: дезертьо́р (bg) m (dezertjór)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 背叛者 (zh) (bèipànzhě), (deserter) 逃兵 (zh) (táobīng), 變節者 / 变节者 (zh) (biànjiézhě), 脫北者 / 脱北者 (zh) (tuōběizhě) (North Korean defector)
- Czech: přeběhlík (cs) m
- Danish: afhopper c
- Dutch: overloper (nl), (military) deserteur (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: petturi (fi), loikkari (fi)
- French: transfuge (fr) m or f
- Georgian: განდგომილი (gandgomili), რენეგატი (renegaṭi), საზღვარგარეთ გამქცევი (sazɣvargaret gamkcevi)
- German: Überläufer (de) m, Überläuferin (de) f
- Greek: αυτόμολος (el) m (aftómolos)
- Hungarian: disszidens (hu)
- Indonesian: pembelot (id)
- Japanese: 離反者 (りはんしゃ, rihansha), 脱北者 (だっぽくしゃ, dappokusha) (North Korean defector)
- Korean: 탈주자(脫走者) (taljuja), 탈영자(脫營者) (ko) (taryeongja), 변절자(變節者) (ko) (byeonjeolja), 탈북자(脫北者) (talbukja) (North Korean defector)
- Latin: dēfector m, transfuga m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: дезерте́р m (dezertér)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: avhopper m
- Polish: dezerter (pl) m, dezerterka (pl) f
- Portuguese: desertor (pt) m, trânsfuga (pt) m or f
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: перебе́жчик (ru) m (perebéžčik), перебе́жчица (ru) f (perebéžčica), дезерти́р (ru) m (dezertír) (especially military), отсту́пник (ru) m (otstúpnik), отсту́пница (ru) f (otstúpnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прѐбег m, прѐбјег m, прѐбеглица f, прѐбјеглица f
- Roman: prèbeg (sh) m, prèbjeg (sh) m, prèbeglica (sh) f, prèbjeglica (sh) f
- Slovak: prebehlík m, prebehlíčka f
- Slovene: prebežnik m, prebežnica f
- Spanish: tránsfuga (es) m, desertor (es) m
- Swedish: avhoppare (sv) c
- Turkish: sığınmacı (tr)
- Ukrainian: перебі́жчик m (perebížčyk), перебі́жчиця f (perebížčycja), дезерти́р m (dezertýr)
- Welsh: enciliwr m
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Latin
Etymology
From dēficiō (“to desert”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
dēfector m (genitive dēfectōris); third declension
- a deserter, rebel
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “defector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers