[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A traitor; a person who betrays someone or something.

- In the early Christian church: a person who surrendered sacred books and vessels or betrayed fellow Christians in times of persecution to save his or her own life.

- A person who transmits or sustains a tradition, especially (in later use) an oral tradition. rare before 20th century.


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English; earliest use found in Knyghthode and Bataile. From classical Latin trāditor person who hands over, traitor, betrayer, in post-classical Latin also teacher (early 3rd century in Tertullian), person who hands over sacred books to their persecutors from trādit-, past participial stem of trādere + -or