adulterer

See also: adultérer and adulterêr

English

Etymology

adulter +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹɚ/
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Noun

adulterer (plural adulterers, feminine adulteress)

One who commits adultery: a spouse who has sex with a non-spouse
- 2009 Garner's Modern American Usage page 22
  Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
A male adulterer specifically, opposite adulteress referring to female ones.
- 2005 The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine and Holiness page 140
  I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife.
- 2016 Freedom From The Sin of Adultery And Fornication page 110
  The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Translations

husband or wife who commits adultery

Asturian: adúlteru m, adúltera f
Bulgarian: прелюбодеец (preljubodeec)
Catalan: adúlter (ca) m, adúltera (ca) f
Czech: cizoložník m cizoložnice f
Danish: ægteskabsbryder c, ægteskabsbryderske c (female), horkarl (da) c (male), horekarl c (male), horkone c (female), horekone f (female), horkvinde c (female), horekvinde c (female)
Dutch: overspelige (nl)
Esperanto: adultulo, adultulino (female), adultinto, adultintino (female)
Finnish: avionrikkoja (fi)
French: adultère (fr) m or f, homme adultère m, femme adultère f
Galician: adúltero (gl) m, adúltera f
Georgian: მრუში (mruši)
German: Ehebrecher (de) m, Ehebrecherin (de) f
Gothic: 𐌷𐍉𐍂𐍃 m (hōrs)
Greek: μοιχός (el) m (moichós), μοιχαλίδα (el) f (moichalída)
Ancient: μοιχός m (moikhós), μοιχαλίς f (moikhalís)
Hungarian: házasságtörő (hu)
Indonesian: pezina
Irish: adhaltrach m, banadhaltrach m (female)
Italian: adultero (it) m, adultera (it) f
Latin: adulter m or f, adultera f
Maori: tangata pūremu, kaipūremu
Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (gʾtʾr /gâdâr/)
Norman: adultéthe m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ekteskapsbryter m, ekteskapsbryterske m or f, horkar m, horkarl m, horkone m or f

Nynorsk: ekteskapsbrytar m, ekteskapsbryterske f, horkall m, horkar m, horkone f
Persian: زناکار‎ (fa) (zenâkâr), زانی‎ (fa) (zâni), پلیدکار‎ (palidkâr)
Polish: cudzołożnik (pl) m, cudzołożnica (pl) f
Portuguese: adúltero (pt) m, adúltera (pt) f
Romagnol: adùltar m, adùlter m
Russian: прелюбоде́й (ru) m (preljubodéj), прелюбоде́йка (ru) f (preljubodéjka)
Scottish Gaelic: adhaltraiche m, ban-adhaltraiche f
Serbo-Croatian: préljubnīk (sh) m, préljubnica (sh) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: manźelstwołamaŕ m

Upper Sorbian: mandźelstwołamar m
Spanish: adúltero (es) m, adúltera (es) f
Swedish: äktenskapsbrytare (sv) c, äktenskapsbryterska (sv) c (female)
Telugu: వ్యభిచారుడు (vyabhicāruḍu)
Yiddish: נואף‎ m (noyef), נואפֿטע‎ f (noyefte)

Latin

Verb

adulterer

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adulterō

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