competitor
English
Alternative forms
- competitour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.
Pronunciation
- ˞enPR: kəm-pĕtʹ-ĭ-tər, IPA(key): /kəm.ˈpɛt.ɪ.təɹ/
- (UK) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Audio (southern England) (file)
- (US) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/
- (UK) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛtɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
competitor (plural competitors)
- A person or organization against whom one is competing.
- A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
- (obsolete) Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […]
And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.
Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me,
And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.
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Synonyms
- (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)
- (participant in a competition): contestant
Related terms
- compete
- competition
- competitive
Translations
person against whom one is competing
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participant in a competition
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Anagrams
- optometric, potometric, topometric
Latin
Alternative forms
- conpetītor
Etymology
From competō + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.peˈtiː.tor/, [kɔmpɛˈt̪iːt̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.peˈti.tor/, [kompeˈt̪iːt̪or]
Noun
competītor m (genitive competītōris, feminine competītrīx); third declension
- a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
- (by extension) plaintiff
- Synonym: petītor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | competītor | competītōrēs |
Genitive | competītōris | competītōrum |
Dative | competītōrī | competītōribus |
Accusative | competītōrem | competītōrēs |
Ablative | competītōre | competītōribus |
Vocative | competītor | competītōrēs |
Related terms
- compitum
- competēns
- competenter
- competentia
- competitio
- competitrix
Descendants
- Catalan: competidor
- Friulian: competidôr
- Italian: competitore
- → Middle French: compétiteur
- → English: competitor
- French: compétiteur
- → Norman: compétiteu
- Portuguese: competidor
- Romanian: competitor
- Spanish: competidor
References
- “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- competitor 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)
- competitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “competitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “competitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French compétiteur, Latin competitor.
Noun
competitor m (plural competitori)
- competitor
Related terms
- competiție
- competitiv