cultor

Latin

Etymology

From colō (“to cultivate; worship, honor”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.tor/, [ˈkʊɫ̪t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.tor/, [ˈkul̪t̪or]

Noun

cultor m (genitive cultōris, feminine cultrīx); third declension

1. Someone who bestows care or labor upon something; cultivator, tiller, husbandman, planter, grower.
2. inhabitant, dweller
3. (figuratively) fosterer, partisan, supporter, follower
4. (figuratively) worshipper, reverencer, votary

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cultor	cultōrēs
Genitive	cultōris	cultōrum
Dative	cultōrī	cultōribus
Accusative	cultōrem	cultōrēs
Ablative	cultōre	cultōribus
Vocative	cultor	cultōrēs

Synonyms

• (inhabitant): incola

Derived terms

• agricultor

Related terms

• agricola
• colō
• colōna
• colōnia
• colōnicus
• colōniārius
• colōnus
• colōnārius
• colōnātus
• culta
• cultiō
• cultrīx
• cultus
• cultē
• cultūra

 

Descendants

• Italian: cultore
• Portuguese: cultor
• Spanish: cultor

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

Noun

cultor m (plural cultores, feminine cultora, feminine plural cultoras)

1. grower, harvester

Further reading

• “cultor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014