🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

violador

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /bjolaˈdoɾ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rapist/ˈreɪ.pɪst/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El violador fue capturado por las autoridades."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A person who commits the crime of rape, forcing someone to have sexual intercourse against their will.

    "The convicted rapist was sentenced to a lengthy prison term."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English noun 'rape' combined with the agent suffix '-ist' (from Latin '-ista' and Greek '-istēs'). The root 'rape' stems from the Latin 'rapere', meaning to snatch, seize, or carry off by force, which evolved historically in legal contexts to denote the crime of sexual assault.

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