violator

• violater

violate +‎ -or

violator (plural violators)

1. One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
2. In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯i.oˈlaː.tor/, [u̯iɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.oˈla.tor/, [vioˈläːt̪or]

violō +‎ -tor

violātor m (genitive violātōris); third declension

1. injurer, profaner, violator

Third-declension noun.

violātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of violō

• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “violator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• violator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French violateur.

violator m (plural violatori)

1. rapist
2. violator