FromMiddle Englishdelatoures pl, fromLatindēlātor.

• Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

delator (pluraldelators)

1. Anaccuser; aninformer.
   • 1655,James Howell, “To the Rt. Hon, the Lord Mohun”, inEpistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume(please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […],→OCLC:

     […]his Accuser orDelator[…]

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delator (pluraldelatores)

1. informer

Fromdēlātus(perfect participle ofdēferō) +‎-tor(“-er”,agent noun suffix).

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

dēlātor m (genitivedēlātōris,femininedēlātrīx);third declension

1. (post-Augustan)accuser,informer,informant,denouncer

Third-declension noun.

• dēlātiō

• “delator”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "delator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “delator”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing fromLatindēlātōrem(“informer, denouncer”).

• Rhymes:(Portugal, São Paulo)-oɾ,(Brazil)-oʁ
• Hyphenation:de‧la‧tor

delator m (pluraldelatores,femininedelatora,feminine pluraldelatoras)

1. informant;whistle-blower

• “delator”, inDicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “delator”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed fromFrenchdélateur.

delator m (pluraldelatori,feminine equivalentdelatoare)

1. informer

FromLatindēlātōrem(“informer, denouncer”).

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

delator (femininedelatora,masculine pluraldelatores,feminine pluraldelatoras)

1. telltale

   Synonym:chivato

delator m (pluraldelatores,femininedelatora,feminine pluraldelatoras)

1. informer

   Synonym:informante

2. betrayer,accuser

   Synonyms:acusador,traidor

• “delator”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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