# desertor
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēsertōrem, from Latin dēsertus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [də.zərˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [de.zeɾˈtoɾ]

### Noun

desertor m (plural desertors, feminine desertora)
* deserter

#### Related terms

* desertar

### Further reading

* “desertor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “desertor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “desertor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “desertor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

dēserō (“to abandon”) +‎ -tor

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /deːˈser.tor/, [d̪eːˈs̠ɛrt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /deˈser.tor/, [d̪eˈs̬ɛrt̪or]

### Noun

dēsertor m (genitive dēsertōris); third declension
* a deserter, one who abandons

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* French: déserteur
* → English: deserter

### References

* “desertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “desertor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēsertōrem, from Latin dēsertus.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.zeʁˈtoʁ/ [de.zehˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /de.zeʁˈtoʁ/ [de.zehˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /de.zeɾˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /de.zeʁˈtoʁ/ [de.zeχˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /de.zeɻˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɨɾˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɨɾˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɨɾˈto.ɾi/
* (Portugal) IPA: [d͡zɾˈtoɾ]
* Hyphenation: de‧ser‧tor

### Noun

desertor m (plural desertores, feminine desertora, feminine plural desertoras)
* (military) deserter (person who leaves a military unit without permission)
* (figuratively) someone who abandons a cause

#### Related terms

* desertar
* deserção
* deserto

### Further reading

* “desertor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin desertorem, from Latin desertus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deseɾˈtoɾ/ [d̪e.seɾˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: de‧ser‧tor

### Noun

desertor m (plural desertores, feminine desertora, feminine plural desertoras)
* deserter
    Synonyms: huido, tránsfuga, prófugo

#### Related terms

* deserción
* desertar
* desierto

### Adjective

desertor (feminine desertora, masculine plural desertores, feminine plural desertoras)
* deserting
** 2024 February 20, Patricia Ortega Dolz, Rafa Burgos, “Un hombre acribillado a balazos en Alicante, identificado como un piloto ruso que desertó a Ucrania”, in El País‎:Budánov también explicó entonces que la inteligencia militar ucrania había logrado sacar de Rusia a la familia del piloto desertor, como recoge la agencia Efe.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* “desertor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10