assertor

From assert +‎ -or.

assertor (plural assertors)

1. One who asserts or avers.
2. One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
   • 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], OCLC 15690937:

     [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]

• asserter

• Serratos, assorter, oratress, reassort, reroasts, roasters

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈser.tor/, [äs̠ˈs̠ɛrt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈser.tor/, [äsˈsɛrt̪or]

assertor m (genitive assertōris); third declension

1. assertor
2. restorer or champion of liberty

Third-declension noun.

• “assertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assertor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• assertor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “assertor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “assertor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin