violator

• violater

From Middle English violator, from Latin violātor.^[1] By surface analysis, violate +‎ -or.

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violator (plural violators)

1. One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

     The ordinance subjected any violator to a fine, to imprisonment for not more than six months, to community service, or to some combination of the three.

   1. (literary, euphemistic) One who violates another person's body as through forced sexual activity
2. In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wi.ɔˈɫaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.oˈlaː.t̪or]

violō +‎ -tor

violātor m (genitive violātōris); third declension

1. injurer, profaner, violator

Third-declension noun.

violātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of violō

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

Borrowed from French violateur.

violator m (plural violatori)

1. rapist
2. violator