Word Origin Summary

Persecutor is attested in Ecclesiastical Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• persecutore

  Italian · borrowed from

• persecuta

  Romanian · borrowed from

• persécuteur

  French · borrowed from

• persecutor

  Spanish · borrowed from

• persécuter

  French · derived from

• persecute

  English · derived from

• persecutor

  Romanian · borrowed from

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