lapicide
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin lapicida. Compare -cide.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lapicide (plural lapicides)
- A stonecutter.
- 2003, Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum[1]:
- Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.
- 1996, John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall, Classical quarterly[2]:
- […] made by Wosnick several decades ago, that the name M. Silanus Murena is the result of a lapicide's error and that this part of the inscription was […]
- 1959, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Anatolian studies[3]:
- One or two cracks in the rock have been avoided by the lapicide.
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French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
lapicide m or f by sense (plural lapicides)
Further reading[edit]
- “lapicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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