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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

aggressore

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aɡɾesˈsoɾe

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Aggressor/əˈɡres.ər/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'aggressore è stato arrestato."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or nation that initiates hostilities or attacks.

    "The aggressor in the conflict was quickly identified by the international community."
  2. 2

    In legal terms, a party that commits an act of aggression.

    "The court ruled that the defendant was the aggressor in the altercation."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin aggressor, meaning 'one who goes to, attacks, or assaults', formed from ad- ('to') plus gradi ('to step, go'). It entered the English language in the late 17th century through French, originally retaining its legal and military connotations before broadening into general usage for any person or nation that initiates a hostile or unprovoked attack.

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