culter

See also: Culter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

1. Obsolete form of colter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “culter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cutler, Lucret, cutler, reluct

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkul̪t̪er]

Noun

culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension

1. knife
2. razor

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	culter	cultrī
Genitive	cultrī	cultrōrum
Dative	cultrō	cultrīs
Accusative	cultrum	cultrōs
Ablative	cultrō	cultrīs
Vocative	culter	cultrī

Derived terms

• cultellus

Descendants

• French: coutre
• Italian: coltro
• → Old English: culter
  • English: coulter, colter
• Portuguese: cultro
• Spanish: cuchillo (by diminutive cultello), cuitre

References

• “culter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “culter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    
• “culter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “culter”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough,1903.