robber
nomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)//
- États-Unis//ˈɹɑ.bɚ//
A person who robs.
nom
- 1
A person who robs.
- 2
An animal who robs.
I remember as a boy in my native land the bad name the common magpie (Pica caudata) had as a destroyer of chickens, and a robber of nests.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic *raubōną Frankish *raubōnbor. Late Latin raubāre Old French rober Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eor Old French robeorbor. Middle English robbour English robber Inherited from Middle English robbour, robbere, either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to rob + -er. Compare reaver (“robber, plunderer”), a native English word derived from Proto-Germanic *raubārijaz that is ultimately of more or less the same composition as robber. And compare rover (“a pirate”), another word of the same composition.
Formes
- pluriel
- robbers