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• competitour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French compétiteur, from Latin competitor.

• enPR: kəm-pĕtʹ-ĭ-tər, IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɪtə(ɹ)

competitor (plural competitors)

1. A person or organization against whom one is competing.
   • 1958 July, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:

     Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.

2. A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
3. (obsolete) Partner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […]
     And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread,
     As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings,
     Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light.
     Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me,
     And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.

• (person against whom one is competing): adversary (loosely), opponent (loosely)
• (participant in a competition): contestant

• compete
• competition
• competitive

• optometric, potometric, topometric

• conpetītor

From competō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.pɛˈtiː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.peˈtiː.tor]

competītor m (genitive competītōris, feminine competītrīx); third declension

1. a competitor, rival, adversary, opponent
2. (by extension) plaintiff

   Synonym: petītor

Third-declension noun.

• “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “competitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "competitor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “competitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “competitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “competitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from French compétiteur, Latin competitor.

competitor m (plural competitori)

1. competitor

• competiție
• competitiv