traitor

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  1. noun One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust, especially one who commits treason.

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin trāditor, from trāditus, past participle of trādere, to betray; see tradition.

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  1. Early modern English also traitour; from Middle English traitour, traytour, treitur, from Old French traitor, traitur, traiteur, traistre, French traitre =Provencal trahire, traire, trahidor, traidor, traitor =Spanish Portuguese traidor =Italian traditore, from Latin traditor, one who betrays, a betrayer, traitor, literally ‘one who delivers,’ and hence in Late Latin also a teacher, from tradere, give up, deliver: see tradition, tray, and cf. traditor.
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