collaborateur
English
Noun
collaborateur (plural collaborateurs)
- Dated form of collaborator.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French collaborateur. The word became the primary label for Nazi collaborators during the Second World War and has been extremely pejorative ever since.
Pronunciation
Noun
collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, diminutive collaborateurtje n)
- (derogatory) one who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator [from WW II]
- (dated) a collaborator, one who cooperates on a certain work [19th c.–early 1940s]
Related terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: kolaborator
French
Etymology
From Late Latin collabōrāre + -ateur, or constructed from collaborer + -eur; eventually from Latin col- (“with, together”) + labor (“work”).
Pronunciation
Noun
collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs, feminine collaboratrice)
- collaborator
- (in particular, derogatory) one who collaborates or has collaborated with the Nazis, fascists or another enemy; traitorous collaborator [from WW II]
- Synonym: collabo
Further reading
- “collaborateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French collaborateur.
Noun
collaborateur m (plural collaborateurs)
- (Jersey) (Nazi) collaborator
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