sculptor

See also: Sculptor

English

Etymology

From Latin sculptor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌlptɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

sculptor (plural sculptors)

1. A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

   Hyponym: sculptress

Translations

a person who sculpts

• Afrikaans: beeldhouer
• Albanina: gdhendës (sq) m, gdhendëse f
• Arabic: نَحَّات m (naḥḥāt), مَثَّال m (maṯṯāl)
• Armenian: քանդակագործ (hy) (kʻandakagorc)
• Azerbaijani: heykəltəraş (az)
• Basque: eskultore, zizelkari
• Belarusian: разьбя́р m (razʹbjár), разьбя́рка f (razʹbjárka), ску́льптар m (skúlʹptar), ску́льптарка f (skúlʹptarka)
• Bulgarian: ску́лптор (bg) m (skúlptor), ску́лпторка f (skúlptorka), вая́тел (bg) m (vajátel), вая́телка f (vajátelka)
• Burmese: ပန်းပုဆရာ (my) (pan:pu.hca.ra), ကျောက်ဆစ်သမား (my) (kyaukhcacsa.ma:) (in stone)
• Catalan: escultor (ca) m, escultora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雕刻家 (zh) (diāokèjiā), 雕塑家 (zh) (diāosùjiā)

• Czech: sochař (cs) m, sochařka (cs) f, řezbář (cs) m, řezbářka f
• Danish: billedhugger (da) c, skulptør c
• Dutch: beeldhouwer (nl) m, beeldhouwster (nl) f
• Esperanto: skulptisto
• Estonian: skulptor, kujur
• Faroese: myndahøggari
• Finnish: kuvanveistäjä (fi)
• French: sculpteur (fr) m, sculptrice (fr) f
• Galician: escultor (gl) m
• Georgian: მოქანდაკე (mokandaḳe)
• German: Skulpteur (de) m, Skulpteurin (de) f, Bildhauer (de) m, Bildhauerin (de) f
• Greek: γλύπτης (el) m (glýptis), γλύπτρια (el) f (glýptria)

  Ancient: γλύπτης m (glúptēs), ἀγαλματοποιός m (agalmatopoiós)

• Hindi: मूर्तिकार (hi) m (mūrtikār), संगतराश (hi) m (saṅgatrāś), बुततराश m (buttarāś), बुत-तराश m (but-tarāś), नक़्क़ाश m (naqqāś)
• Hungarian: szobrász (hu)
• Icelandic: myndhöggvari (is) m
• Ido: skultisto (io), skultero
• Indonesian: pemahat (id), pengukir (id), pematung (id)
• Irish: dealbhóir m, snoíodóir m
• Italian: scultore (it) m, scultrice (it) f
• Japanese: 彫刻家 (ja) (ちょうこくか, chōkokuka)
• Kazakh: мүсінші (müsınşı)
• Khmer: ជាងចម្លាក់ (ciəng cɑmlak)
• Korean: 조각가(彫刻家) (ko) (jogakga)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: peykertraş (ku), peykersaz (ku)

• Kyrgyz: скульптор (ky) (skulptor), айкелчи (aykelci), бедизчи (bedizci)
• Lao: ຊ່າງຄວັດ (sāng khuat), ຊ່າງແກະລາຍ (sāng kæ lāi)
• Latin: sculptor m
• Latvian: tēlnieks m, tēlniece f
• Lithuanian: skulptorius (lt) m, skulptorė f
• Macedonian: вајар m (vajar), вајарка f (vajarka), скулптор m (skulptor), скулпторка f (skulptorka)
• Malay: pengukir
• Maori: kaiwhakairo, kaitārai
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сийлбэрч (mn) (siilberč), барималч (mn) (barimalč)

• Norman: stchulpteux m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skulptør m, billedhugger m

  Nynorsk: skulptør m, bilethoggar m

• Occitan: esculptor m
• Old East Slavic: ваꙗтель m (vajatelĭ)
• Pashto: توږونکی m (toǵunkay)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مُجَسَّمِه‌ساز (fa) (mojassame-sâz)

• Polish: rzeźbiarz (pl) m, rzeźbiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: escultor (pt) m
• Romanian: sculptor (ro) m, sculptoriță (ro) f
• Russian: ску́льптор (ru) m (skúlʹptor), вая́тель (ru) m (vajátelʹ), вая́тельница (ru) f (vajátelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ки̏па̄р m

  Roman: kȉpār (sh) m

• Slovak: sochár (sk) m, sochárka f
• Slovene: kipar (sl) m
• Spanish: escultor (es) m, escultora (es) f
• Swedish: skulptör (sv) c, bildhuggare (sv) c
• Tagalog: manlililok
• Tajik: ҳайкалтарош (tg) (haykaltaroš)
• Telugu: శిల్పి (te) (śilpi)
• Thai: ประติมากร (bprà-dtì-maa-gɔɔn)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: heykelci (tr), heykeltıraş (tr), yontucu (tr)
• Turkmen: heýkeltaraş
• Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎒𐎍 (psl)
• Ukrainian: ску́льптор m (skúlʹptor), ску́льпторка f (skúlʹptorka), різьбя́р m (rizʹbjár), різьбя́рка f (rizʹbjárka)
• Urdu: بُت تَراش m (but tarāś), مُجَسَّمَہ ساز m (mujassama sāz), سَن٘گ تَراش m (saṅg tarāś) (stone cutter), نَقّاش m (naqqāś)
• Uyghur: ھەيكەلتىراش (heykeltirash)
• Uzbek: haykaltarosh (uz), skulptor
• Vietnamese: nhà điêu khắc

Latin

Etymology

From sculpō (“I sculpt”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskulp.tor/, [ˈs̠kʊɫ̪pt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskulp.tor/, [ˈskulpt̪or]

Noun

sculptor m (genitive sculptōris); third declension

1. stone-cutter, sculptor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sculptor	sculptōrēs
genitive	sculptōris	sculptōrum
dative	sculptōrī	sculptōribus
accusative	sculptōrem	sculptōrēs
ablative	sculptōre	sculptōribus
vocative	sculptor	sculptōrēs

Related terms

• sculpō
• sculptilis

Descendants

• Catalan: escultor
• French: sculpteur
• Friulian: scultôr
• Galician: escultor
• Italian: scultore
• Lombard: scultor
• Occitan: esculptor
• Piedmontese: scultor
• Portuguese: escultor
• Romanian: sculptor
• Russian: ску́льптор (skúlʹptor)
• Spanish: escultor

References

• “sculptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sculptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sculptor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sculpteur, from Latin scūlptor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skulpˈtor/

Noun

sculptor m (plural sculptori, feminine equivalent sculptoriță)

1. sculptor

Declension

Declension of sculptor

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sculptor	sculptorul		sculptori	sculptorii
genitive-dative	sculptor	sculptorului		sculptori	sculptorilor
vocative	sculptorule			sculptorilor

References

• “sculptor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025