traitor
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
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A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
traitor
a person who betrays his or her country, cause, friend, etc.; one guilty of treason or treachery (betrayal of trust, faith, or allegiance; perfidy, disloyalty, or treason)
叛徒, 卖国贼, 出卖朋友者
Dissection of traitor
traitor =trai (=trans, across, beyond, through) + i + t (=da, give) + -or (a person who);
traitor = a person who gives up;
a person who gives up his loyalty, allegiance, trust, faith;
traitor = extended further to mean a person who betrays his country, friend, cause, trust, faith, allegiance
Now Repeat my Dissection
traitor = a person who gives up;
a person who gives up his loyalty, allegiance, trust, faith;
traitor = extended further to mean a person who betrays his country, friend, cause, trust, faith, allegiance
Important roots for this word:
trans-
da
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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