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English
Etymology
From Latin sculptor.
Pronunciation
Noun
sculptor (plural sculptors)
- A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.
- Hyponym: sculptress
Translations
a person who sculpts
- Albanina: gdhendës (sq) m, gdhendëse,
- Arabic: نَحَّات m (naḥḥāt), مَثَّال m (maṯṯāl)
- Armenian: քանդակագործ (hy) (kʻandakagorc)
- Azerbaijani: heykəltəraş (az)
- Basque: eskultore, zizelkari
- Belarusian: разьбя́р m (razʹbjár), ску́льптар m (skúlʹptar)
- Bulgarian: ску́лптор (bg) m (skúlptor), ску́лпторка f (skúlptorka), ваятел (bg) m (vajatel)
- Burmese: ပန်းပုဆရာ (my) (pan:pu.hca.ra)
- Catalan: escultor (ca) m, escultora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雕刻家 (zh) (diāokèjiā), 雕塑家 (zh) (diāosùjiā)
- Czech: sochař (cs) m, sochařka (cs) f, řezbář (cs) m
- Danish: billedhugger (da) c, skulptør c
- Dutch: beeldhouwer (nl) m
- Esperanto: skulptisto
- Faroese: myndahøggari
- Finnish: kuvanveistäjä (fi)
- French: sculpteur (fr) m
- Galician: escultor (gl) m
- Georgian: მოქანდაკე (mokandaḳe)
- German: Skulpteur (de) m, Bildhauer (de) m, Bildhauerin (de) f
- Greek: γλύπτης (el) m (glýptis), γλύπτρια (el) f (glýptria)
- Ancient: γλύπτης m (glúptēs), ἀγαλματοποιός m (agalmatopoiós)
- Hindi: मूर्तिकार (hi) (mūrtikār), संगतराश (hi) (saṅgatrāś), बुततराश (butatrāś), नक़्क़ाश (naqqāś)
- Hungarian: szobrász (hu)
- Icelandic: myndhöggvari m
- Ido: skultisto (io), skultero
- Indonesian: pemahat (id)
- Irish: dealbhóir m, snoíodóir m
- Italian: scultore (it) m, scultrice (it) f
- Japanese: 彫刻家 (ja) (ちょうこくか, chōkokuka)
- Kazakh: мүсінші (müsınşı)
- Korean: 조각가 (ko) (jogakga)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: sculptor m
- Lithuanian: skulptorius (lt) m
- Macedonian: вајар m (vajar), скулптор m (skulptor)
- Maori: kaiwhakairo, kaitārai
- Norman: stchulpteux m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skulptør m, billedhugger
- Nynorsk: skulptør m, bilethoggar
- Occitan: esculptor m
- Old East Slavic: ваꙗтель m (vajatelĭ)
- Polish: rzeźbiarz (pl) m, rzeźbiarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: escultor (pt) m
- Romanian: sculptor (ro) m, sculptoriță (ro) f
- Russian: ску́льптор (ru) m (skúlʹptor), вая́тель (ru) m (vajátelʹ), вая́тельница (ru) f (vajátelʹnica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ки̏па̄р m
- Roman: kȉpār (sh) m
- Slovak: sochár (sk) m, sochárka f
- Slovene: kipar (sl) m
- Spanish: escultor (es) m, escultora (es) f
- Swedish: skulptör (sv) c, bildhuggare (sv) c
- Tagalog: manlililok
- Telugu: శిల్పి (te) (śilpi)
- Thai: ประติมากร (bprà-dtì-maa-gɔɔn)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: heykelci (tr), heykeltıraş (tr), yontucu (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎒𐎍 (psl)
- Ukrainian: ску́льптор m (skúlʹptor), різьбя́р m (rizʹbjár)
- Vietnamese: nhà điêu khắc
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Latin
Etymology
From sculpō (“I sculpt”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
sculptor m (genitive sculptōris); third declension
- stone-cutter, sculptor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “sculptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sculptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sculptor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sculpteur, from Latin scūlptor.
Pronunciation
Noun
sculptor m (plural sculptori, feminine equivalent sculptoriță)
- sculptor
Declension
References