protector

• protectour (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman protectour, protector, from Latin prōtector, from prōtegō (“shield, protect”).

• (US) enPR: prə-tĕk'tər, IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktɚ/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛktə/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: pro‧tec‧tor

protector (plural protectors)

1. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
   • 2005 January 3, Jon Huntsman Jr., quoted in “Highlights from Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s inauguration speech”, Deseret News, 4 January 2005:

     I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service — not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.

2. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect.
3. One who prevents interference.
4. A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law.
5. (Britain, historical) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 122, column 2:

     My Lord Protector, ’tis his Highnes pleaſure, You do prepare to ride vnto S. Albons, / Where as the King and Queene do mean to Hawke.

6. (Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.

• guard
• sentry

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pɾo.təkˈto/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾu.təkˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾo.tekˈtoɾ/

protector (feminine protectora, masculine plural protectors, feminine plural protectores)

1. protecting

protector m (plural protectors)

1. protector

• “protector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin prōtector, from prōtegō (“to shield, protect”).

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protector m (plural protectoren, diminutive protectortje n)

1. A protector, guardian, regent etc.
2. (rare) Title of certain orphanage governors

• behoeder m
• beschermer m
• beschermheer m
• protecteur m (close French cognate)

• lord-protector m
• protectorschap n

• protectie
• protectoraat n

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈtek.tor/, [proːˈtɛk.tɔr]

prōtector m (genitive prōtectōris); third declension

1. protector (all senses)
2. guardian; guard

Third declension.

• Russian: протектор (protektor)

• protector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• protector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• protector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras)

1. Alternative spelling of protetor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

protector m (feminine singular protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras, comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of protetor (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

• IPA^(key): /pɾoteɡˈtoɾ/, [pɾot̪eɣˈt̪oɾ]

protector (feminine singular protectora, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectoras) or protector (feminine singular protectriz, masculine plural protectores, feminine plural protectrices)

1. protective

protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectora, feminine plural protectoras) or protector m (plural protectores, feminine protectriz, feminine plural protectrices)

1. A protector