different between calumniator vs calumniate

English

Etymology

calumniate +? -or

Noun

calumniator (plural calumniators)

1. A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
   • 1857 Charles Dickens - Household Words: A Weekly Journal

     He did not go to the police and cover the calumniator with infamy before the tribunals.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From calumnior +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.lum.ni?a?.tor/, [kä???mni?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.lum.ni?a.tor/, [k?lumni???t??r]

Noun

calumni?tor m (genitive calumni?t?ris, feminine calumni?tr?x); third declension

1. pettifogger
2. chicaner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

calumni?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of calumnior
2. third-person singular future active imperative of calumnior

References

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

English

Etymology

From Latin calumni?tus, perfect active participle of calumnior (“I accuse falsely”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?mni.e?t/

Verb

calumniate (third-person singular simple present calumniates, present participle calumniating, simple past and past participle calumniated)

1. (transitive) To make hurtful untrue comments about.
   • a. 1555, John Hooper, A Brief Treatise respecting Judge Hales

     Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings.

   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, chapter 1

     There are adherents of each of the four French parties—Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans—in this little mountain-town; and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other.

2. (transitive) To levy a false charge against, especially of a vague offense, with the intent to damage someone's reputation or standing.

Synonyms

• (to make hurtful untrue statements): slander
• See also Thesaurus:defame

Related terms

• calumniation
• calumniator
• calumniatory
• calumnious
• calumny

Translations

Latin

Participle

calumni?te

1. vocative masculine singular of calumni?tus