potter

See also: Potter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒtə/

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• Rhymes: -ɒtə(r)

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English pottere, from late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English pottere (“potter”), equivalent to pot +‎ -er, influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French potier (“potter”). More at pot. Displaced Old English crocwyrhta (“crock-wright”).

Noun

potter (plural potters)

1. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 453,

     shoemakers, weavers, potters, bronzeworkers who produced and purveyed the articles necessary for daily life.

2. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

5. The red-bellied terrapin, (species of turtle).
6. The chicken turtle, .

Synonyms

• (Pseudemys rubriventris): northern red-bellied cooter
• (maker of ceramics): ceramicist

Derived terms

• potter’s clay
• potter’s field
• potter’s rot

• potter’s wheel
• pottery

Translations

one who makes pots and ceramic wares

• Arabic: خَزَّاف m (ḵazzāf)
• Armenian: բրուտ (hy) (brut), կավագործ (kavagorc)
• Aromanian: ular m
• Azerbaijani: dulus
• Catalan: terrissaire (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陶瓷工 (táocígōng), 製陶工人／制陶工人 (zh)

• Czech: hrnčíř (cs) m
• Dutch: pottenbakker (nl) m, pottenbakster (nl) f
• Finnish: savenvalaja (fi)
• French: potier (fr) m, potière (fr) f
• Georgian: მეთუნე (metune)
• German: Töpfer (de) m, Töpferin (de) f
• Greek: αγγειοπλάστης (el) m (angeioplástis)

  Ancient: κεραμεύς m (kerameús)

• Hebrew: קדר (he) m (kadar)
• Hindi: कुम्हार (hi) m (kumhār), कुंहार m (kũhār), कुंभार (hi) m (kumbhār)
• Hungarian: fazekas (hu)
• Italian: vasaio (it) m, vasaia (it) f
• Japanese: 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō)
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• Kazakh: қышшы (qyşşy)
• Korean: 도공 (ko) (dogong), 도예가 (doyega)
• Latin: figulus m, fictiliārius m
• Latvian: podnieks m, podniece f
• Macedonian: грнчар m (grnčar)
• Maori: kaihanga rīhi, kaimahi uku
• Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ ííłʼíní
• Oriya: କୁମ୍ଭାର (or) (kumbhāra), କୁମ୍ଭାରୁଣି (kumbhāruṇi)
• Pali: kumbhakāra
• Polish: garncarz (pl) m, garncarka f
• Portuguese: oleiro (pt) m, oleira f, ceramista m or f
• Romanian: olar (ro) m, ceramist (ro) m, ceramistă (ro) f
• Russian: гонча́р (ru) m (gončár), горше́чник (ru) m (goršéčnik)
• Sanskrit: कुलाल (sa) m (kulāla)
• Spanish: alfarero (es) m, alfarera f, ceramista m or f
• Swahili: mfinyanzi (sw)
• Swedish: krukmakare (sv) c
• Telugu: కుమ్మరి (te) (kummari)
• Turkish: çömlekçi (tr)
• Ukrainian: гонча́р (uk) m (hončár)
• Vilamovian: tepper m, tepperyn f
• Volapük: (♂♀) skalel (vo), (♂) hiskalel, (♀) jiskalel
• Yiddish: טעפּער m (teper), טעפּערין f (teperin)

one who places flowers or other plants inside their pots

• Finnish: ruukuttaja
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one who pots food

• Finnish: purkittaja, tölkittäjä
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one who hawks earthenware

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Pseudemys rubriventris

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Deirochelys serrata

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Further reading

• potter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• (Biblical) Bratcher, Dennis Bratcher (2006), The Potter, The Voice CRI/Voice Institute[1]

Etymology 2

Frequentative of pote, equivalent to pote +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch poteren, peuteren (“to poke, pry, search”).

Alternative forms

• putter, pouter, pudder, pother

Verb

potter (third-person singular simple present potters, present participle pottering, simple past and past participle pottered)

1. (British) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
2. (British) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
3. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.

Derived terms

• potter about
• potter around

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

potter m or f

1. indefinite plural of potte

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

potter f

1. indefinite plural of potte