fictor

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

fictor (plural fictors)

  1. An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fictor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

References

  • 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.