traditor

traditor
/trad"i teuhr/, n., pl. traditores /trad'i tawr"eez, -tohr"-/.
an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
[1325-75; ME < L traditor traitor, equiv. to tradi-, var. s. of tradere (see TRADITION) + -tor -TOR]

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