arator

See also: arător and arãtor

Latin

Etymology

From arō (“plough, till”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈraː.tor/, [äˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.tor/, [äˈräːt̪or]

Noun

arātor m (genitive arātōris); third declension

1. 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.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

• arātōrius

Related terms

• arāter
• arātiō
• arātiuncula
• arātrō

• arātrum
• arātus
• arō

Descendants

• Aromanian: arãtor
• Catalan: arador
• Friulian: aradôr
• Italian: aratore

• Portuguese: arador
• Romanian: arător
• Spanish: arador

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.