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Latin
Etymology
From colō (“to cultivate; worship, honor”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
cultor m (genitive cultōris, feminine cultrīx); third declension
- Someone who bestows care or labor upon something; cultivator, tiller, husbandman, planter, grower.
- inhabitant, dweller
- (figuratively) fosterer, partisan, supporter, follower
- (figuratively) worshipper, reverencer, votary
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “cultor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cultor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cultor 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)
- cultor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulˈtoɾ/
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: cul‧tor
Noun
cultor m (plural cultores, feminine cultora, feminine plural cultoras)
- grower, harvester
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