fictor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪktə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)

Noun

fictor (plural fictors)

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

References

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Coordinate terms

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.
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