adulter

From Latin adulterō.

adulter (plural adulters)

1. (now rare) An adulterer, especially a male one.

• adultress

adulter (third-person singular simple present adulters, present participle adultering, simple past and past participle adultered) (now rare)

1. To commit adultery.
2. To pollute something; to adulterate.

• adulterer
• adulteress

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adulter

1. inflection of adult:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Back-formation from adulterō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈdul.ter/, [äˈd̪ʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdul.ter/, [äˈd̪ul̪t̪er]

adulter (feminine adultera, neuter adulterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. adulterous, unfaithful, unchaste
2. (by extension) counterfeit, false

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• (unchaste): adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, impūrus, incestus

• (antonym(s) of “unchaste”): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pudīcus, pūrus

• adulterīnus
• adulterium

• Italian: adultero
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: adùltar, adùlter

adulter m (genitive adulterī); second declension

1. adulterer or adulteress, paramour
2. bastard
   • Vulgate, Hebrews 12.8:

     adulteri et non filii estis.

     You are bastards and not sons.

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• (bastard): nothus

• Catalan: adúlter
• English: advoutrer
• French: adultère
• Galician: adúltero
• Old French: avuiltre
  • Middle French: avoutre
    • French: avoutre
    • Bourguignon: aivoutre
• Old Irish: adaltair
• Portuguese: adúltero
• Spanish: adúltero

• “adulter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French adultère.

adulter n (plural adultere)

1. adultery