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“traitor”
1. Someone who betrays a trust or who acts as a collaborationist for a treasonous cause: The traitor plead guilty to treason in exchange for banishment from his country.
2. Etymology: from Old French tradicion; from Latin traditionem, "delivery, surrender, a handing down"; from traditus, past participle of tradere, "to deliver, to hand over"; from trans-, "over" + dare, "to give".
2. Etymology: from Old French tradicion; from Latin traditionem, "delivery, surrender, a handing down"; from traditus, past participle of tradere, "to deliver, to hand over"; from trans-, "over" + dare, "to give".
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dat-, dos-, dot-, dow-, don-, dit-
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-or; -our (primarily British)
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