# competitor
## English
### Alternative forms

* competitour (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kəm-pĕtʹ-ĭ-tər, IPA: /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.təɹ/
** (UK) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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** (US) /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/
* (Indic) IPA: /ˈkɒmpaˌtiːta(ɾ)/, /kamˈpetita(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -ɛtɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

competitor (plural competitors)
* A person or organization against whom one is competing.
* A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
* (obsolete) Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […] And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread, As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings, Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light. Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me, And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.

#### Synonyms

* (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)
* (participant in a competition): contestant

#### Derived terms

* anticompetitor
* archcompetitor
* competitorship
* competitress
* coopetitor
* intercompetitor
* noncompetitor
* supercompetitor

#### Related terms

* compete
* competition
* competitive

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* optometric, potometric, topometric

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* conpetītor

### Etymology

From competō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kom.peˈtiː.tor/, [kɔmpɛˈt̪iːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kom.peˈti.tor/, [kompeˈt̪iːt̪or]

### Noun

competītor m (genitive competītōris, feminine competītrīx); third declension
* a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
* (by extension) plaintiff
    Synonym: petītor

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* competēns
* competenter
* competentia
* competitio
* competitrix
* compitum

#### Descendants

* Catalan: competidor
* Friulian: competidôr
* Italian: competitore
* → Middle French: compétiteur
** → English: competitor
** French: compétiteur
** → Norman: compétiteu
* Portuguese: competidor
* Romanian: competitor
* Spanish: competidor

### References

* “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "competitor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* competitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “competitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “competitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French compétiteur, Latin competitor.

### Noun

competitor m (plural competitori)
* competitor

#### Related terms

* competiție
* competitiv