fictor

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin fictor, from fingo (to shape, to sculpt).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fictor (plural fictors)

  1. An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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fictus, perfect passive participle of fingō (to form, make) +‎ -tor

Noun

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fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension

  1. maker (especially of statuary images)
  2. creator

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fictor fictōrēs
Genitive fictōris fictōrum
Dative fictōrī fictōribus
Accusative fictōrem fictōrēs
Ablative fictōre fictōribus
Vocative fictor fictōrēs

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References

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  • fictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fictor 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)
  • fictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.