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English
Etymology
From Latin fictor, from fingo (“to shape, to sculpt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fictor (plural fictors)
- An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
fictus, perfect passive participle of fingō (“to form, make”) + -tor
Noun
fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension
- maker (especially of statuary images)
- creator
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Coordinate terms
References
- “fictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fictor 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)
- fictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.