Etymology

aggressor

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Today it means: The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. Full definition →

Latin aggressor ← Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- ← Proto-Italic *ad-
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aggressor · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*gʰredʰ-
  6. Latingradior
  7. Latinaggredior
  8. Latinaggressor
  9. English todayaggressor

Derived from Latin aggressor (“attacker, assailant, aggressor”).

Aggressor · proper noun, noun2

From aggressor.

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