arator

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See also: arător and arãtor

Latin

Etymology

From arō (“plough, till”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

arātor m (genitive arātōris); third declension

  1. 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.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative arātor arātōrēs
genitive arātōris arātōrum
dative arātōrī arātōribus
accusative arātōrem arātōrēs
ablative arātōre arātōribus
vocative arātor arātōrēs

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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.
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