ruricola

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Latin

Etymology

From rūs (“the country”) +‎ -cola (“cultivator, dweller”). The latter comes from colō (“to till, cultivate”) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.

Pronunciation

Adjective

rūricola (genitive rūricolae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)

  1. that tills the soil
  2. rural, rustic
    • 1732 [1731], Antoine Augustin Calmet, “Commentarium in Jeremiam. Cap. XVII”, in Commentarium literale in omnes ac singulos tum veteris cum novi testamenti libros‎, Venice: Sebastian Colet, translation of Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments (in French), page 98:
      Nullus dubito, V̄V̄. 2. et 3. ita conjungendos esse : Ut filii sui numquam obliviscantur altarium eorum, ac numinum ruricolarum (Hebraeus, Aserim) quae venerabantur in lucis fronde contectis, super excelsos colles, super montes, in agris.
      I have no doubt that verses 2 and 3 are to be conjoined in this way: That their children never forget the altars and the rural deities (Hebrew, Asherim) that were worshiped in leafy sacred groves, on lofty hills, on the mountains, in the fields.

Declension

First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative rūricola rūricolae rūricola
Genitive rūricolae rūricolārum
Dative rūricolīs
Accusative rūricolam rūricola rūricolās rūricola
Ablative rūricolā rūricolīs
Vocative rūricola rūricolae rūricola

Derived terms

Noun

rūricola m (genitive rūricolae); first declension

  1. countryman, rustic, farmer
  2. (usually in the plural) oxen

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rūricola rūricolae
Genitive rūricolae rūricolārum
Dative rūricolae rūricolīs
Accusative rūricolam rūricolās
Ablative rūricolā rūricolīs
Vocative rūricola rūricolae

References

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