agrimensor

English

Etymology

Latin agrimensor

Noun

agrimensor (plural agrimensors)

1. (historical) A land surveyor in Ancient Rome.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin agrīmēnsor (“land surveyor”).

Noun

agrimensor m (plural agrimensors, feminine agrimensora)

1. surveyor

Related terms

• agrimensura

Further reading

• “agrimensor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “agrimensor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “agrimensor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “agrimensor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Latin

Etymology

ager (“territory”, “district”, “domain”; “productive land”, “a field”) +‎ mēnsor (“a measurer”, “a surveyor”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.ɡriːˈmen.sor/, [äɡriːˈmẽːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ɡriˈmen.sor/, [äɡriˈmɛnsor]

Noun

agrīmēnsor m (genitive agrīmēnsōris); third declension

1. a land surveyor (a professional who measures land, delineates property boundaries, etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agrīmēnsor	agrīmēnsōrēs
Genitive	agrīmēnsōris	agrīmēnsōrum
Dative	agrīmēnsōrī	agrīmēnsōribus
Accusative	agrīmēnsōrem	agrīmēnsōrēs
Ablative	agrīmēnsōre	agrīmēnsōribus
Vocative	agrīmēnsor	agrīmēnsōrēs

Derived terms

• agrīmēnsōrius

Descendants

• Catalan: agrimensor
• Italian: agrimensore
• Portuguese: agrimensor
• → Romanian: agrimensor
• Spanish: agrimensor

References

• “agrīmensor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agrĭmensŏr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 92/1.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agrīmēnsor (“land surveyor”).

Noun

agrimensor m (plural agrimensores, feminine agrimensora, feminine plural agrimensoras)

1. surveyor (person occupied with land surveying)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian agrimensore, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin agrīmensor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡri.menˈsor/

Noun

agrimensor m (plural agrimensori)

1. surveyor (person occupied with land surveying)

Declension

Declension of agrimensor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) agrimensor	agrimensorul	(niște) agrimensori	agrimensorii
genitive/dative	(unui) agrimensor	agrimensorului	(unor) agrimensori	agrimensorilor
vocative	agrimensorule		agrimensorilor

Synonyms

• arpentor

Related terms

• agrimensură

References

• agrimensor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin agrīmēnsor (“land surveyor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɡɾimenˈsoɾ/ [a.ɣ̞ɾi.mẽnˈsoɾ]

Noun

agrimensor m (plural agrimensores, feminine agrimensora, feminine plural agrimensoras)

1. surveyor

Related terms

• agrimensura

Descendants

• Tagalog: agrimensor

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish agrimensor (“surveyor”).

Noun

agrimensór

1. surveyor

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary