protestor

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English protest

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin -ātor

Old French -eorbor.

Middle English -our

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Latin -torlbor.

English -or

English protestor

From protest + -or.

Noun

protestor (plural protestors)

1. Alternative spelling of protester.
   • 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:

     No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]

   • 2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 43:

     We also talk about dealing with protestors, whose actions are creating additional costs of tens of millions of pounds.

Derived terms

• counterprotestor

Latin

Etymology

From prō- + testor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proːˈtɛs.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈtɛs.tor]

Verb

prōtestor (present infinitive prōtestārī, perfect active prōtestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to testify, bear witness, attest
2. to protest

Conjugation

   Conjugation of prōtestor (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	prōtestor		prōtestāris, prōtestāre		prōtestātur		prōtestāmur		prōtestāminī		prōtestantur
	imperfect	prōtestābar		prōtestābāris, prōtestābāre		prōtestābātur		prōtestābāmur		prōtestābāminī		prōtestābantur
	future	prōtestābor		prōtestāberis, prōtestābere		prōtestābitur		prōtestābimur		prōtestābiminī		prōtestābuntur
	perfect	prōtestātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	prōtestātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	prōtestātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	prōtester		prōtestēris, prōtestēre		prōtestētur		prōtestēmur		prōtestēminī		prōtestentur
	imperfect	prōtestārer		prōtestārēris, prōtestārēre		prōtestārētur		prōtestārēmur		prōtestārēminī		prōtestārentur
	perfect	prōtestātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	prōtestātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		prōtestāre		—		—		prōtestāminī		—
	future	—		prōtestātor		prōtestātor		—		—		prōtestantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		prōtestārī			—			prōtestāns			—
future		prōtestātūrum esse			—			prōtestātūrus			prōtestandus
perfect		prōtestātum esse			—			prōtestātus			—
future perfect		prōtestātum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		prōtestātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		prōtestandī		prōtestandō		prōtestandum		prōtestandō		prōtestātum		prōtestātū

Descendants

• Catalan: protestar
• English: protest
• French: protester
• Galician: protestar
• Italian: protestare
• Portuguese: protestar
• Romanian: protesta
• Spanish: protestar

References

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