delator

From Latin delator.

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

delator (plural delators)

1. An accuser; an informer.
   • 1655, James Howell, “To the Rt. Hon, the Lord Mohun”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], OCLC 84295516:

     […] his Accuser or Delator […]

• leotard

delator (plural delatores)

1. informer

From dēlātus (perfect participle of dēferō) +‎ -tor (“-er”, agent noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈlaː.tor/, [d̪eːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈla.tor/, [d̪eˈläːt̪or]

dēlātor m (genitive dēlātōris, feminine dēlātrīx); third declension

1. (post-Classical Latin) accuser, informer, informant, denouncer

Third-declension noun.

• dēlātiō

• “delator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• delator 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)
• delator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlātōrem (“informer, denouncer”).

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: de‧la‧tor

delator m (plural delatores, feminine delatora, feminine plural delatoras)

1. informant; whistle-blower

From French délateur.

delator m (plural delatori)

1. informer

From Latin dēlātōrem, accusative singular of dēlātor (“informer, denouncer”).

• IPA^(key): /delaˈtoɾ/ [d̪e.laˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: de‧la‧tor

delator (feminine delatora, masculine plural delatores, feminine plural delatoras)

1. telltale

   Synonym: delatador

• delatar

delator m (plural delatores, feminine delatora, feminine plural delatoras)

1. informer

   Synonym: informante

2. betrayer, accuser

   Synonyms: acusador, traidor

• “delator”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014