arator
Latin
Etymology
From arō (“plough, till”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈraː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈraː.t̪or]
Noun
arātor m (genitive arātōris); third declension
- ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman (someone that ploughs/plows)
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | arātor | arātōrēs |
| genitive | arātōris | arātōrum |
| dative | arātōrī | arātōribus |
| accusative | arātōrem | arātōrēs |
| ablative | arātōre | arātōribus |
| vocative | arātor | arātōrēs |
Synonyms
- (farmer, husbandman, ploughman): agricola, agricultor, bubulcārius, bubulcus, colōnus
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- “arator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "arator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.