arator
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈraː.tor/, [aˈraː.tɔr]
Noun
arātor m (genitive arātōris); third declension
- Someone that ploughs or plows; ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman.
- 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.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | arātor | arātōrēs |
| Genitive | arātōris | arātōrum |
| Dative | arātōrī | arātōribus |
| Accusative | arātōrem | arātōrēs |
| Ablative | arātōre | arātōribus |
| Vocative | arātor | arātōrēs |
Synonyms
- (farmer, husbandman, ploughman): agricola, agricultor, bubulcārius, bubulcus, colōnus
Derived terms
Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- arator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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