abtor

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • Semi-learned borrowing from Latin actor, from āctus + -tor.

    Noun

    abtor m (plural abtores)

    1. (law) plaintiff
      Synonym: demandador
      Antonym: reo
      • 1421, anonimous, San Vicenzo de Pombeiro; republished as chapter 99, in Manuel Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada; A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, 1996, page 164:
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        [E por quanto estaua concluso deron em el sua pronunçiaçon en que acharon que anbalas ditas partes deuian seer juntamente reçebidos a a proua: conuen a saber, a parte abtor de sua demanda e auçon a as ditas partes reas de sues exçepçoos e defensõõs, e asignaronlles çertos prazos en que fezesen suas prouas e presentasen seus artigõõs e posiçõẽs e fizesen juramento de calonia.]
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    Descendants

    • Galician: actor
    • Portuguese: ator

    References

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