conspirator

English

Alternative forms

• conspiratour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman conspiratour.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈspɪɹətə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈspɪɹətɚ/

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Noun

conspirator (plural conspirators)

1. One of a group that acts in harmony; a person who is part of a conspiracy.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119:

     All the Jacobite gentry of that part of the country were collected together; though, it must be confessed, their appearance and their usual after-dinner conversation were rather at variance. Now they looked calm and comfortable, with as little the appearance of conspirators as possible; then they were (by their own account) the most oppressed of individuals, and the most devoted of partisans, ready to die, so that their wrongs were redressed, and the rightful king restored.

2. Part of a group that agree to do an unlawful or unethical act.

   The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested.

Derived terms

• archconspirator
• co-conspirator
• conspiratorship
• conspiratress
• nonconspirator

Related terms

• conspirer

Translations

person who is part of a conspiracy

Armenian: Old Armenian: դաշնակից (dašnakicʻ) Catalan: conspirador m Chinese: Mandarin: 同謀 / 同谋 (zh) (tóngmóu) Czech: spiklenec (cs) m Dutch: samenzweerder (nl) m Esperanto: komplotanto Finnish: salaliittolainen (fi) French: conspirateur (fr) m, conspiratrice (fr) f Galician: conspirador m, conspiradora f German: Verschwörer (de) m, Verschwörerin (de) f Hungarian: összesküvő, konspirátor (hu) Indonesian: konspirator (id) Irish: comhchealgaire m, cogarnach m Italian: congiurato (it) m, congiurata (it) f, cospiratore m, cospiratrice f, complottardo (it) m Kyrgyz: кутумчу (kutumcu) Macedonian: заговорник m (zagovornik) Manx: cochialgeyr m Maori: kaikakai Norman: complioteux m Norwegian: Bokmål: konspiratør m Nynorsk: konspiratør m Polish: konspirator (pl) m, spiskowiec (pl) m, konspiratorka f Portuguese: conspirador (pt) m, conspiradora f Russian: загово́рщик (ru) m (zagovórščik), загово́рщица (ru) f (zagovórščica), конспира́тор (ru) m (konspirátor) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Roman: ùrotnīk (sh) m, ùrotnica f, zavjerènīk (sh) m, zavjerènica (sh) f, zaverenik (sh) m Spanish: conspirador (es) m, conspiradora (es) f Swedish: konspiratör (sv) c, sammansvuren (sv) c Turkish: casus (tr), komplocu (tr) Ukrainian: змо́вник m (zmóvnyk), змо́вниця f (zmóvnycja) Welsh: cynllwynwr m

Anagrams

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Etymology

Borrowed from French conspirateur.

Noun

conspirator m (plural conspiratori)

1. conspirator

Declension

Declension of conspirator

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	conspirator	conspiratorul		conspiratori	conspiratorii
genitive-dative	conspirator	conspiratorului		conspiratori	conspiratorilor
vocative	conspiratorule			conspiratorilor