arator

== Latin == === Etymology === From arō (“plough, till”) + -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈraː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈraː.tor] === Noun === arātor m (genitive arātōris); third declension ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman (someone that ploughs/plows) Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4 Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves. The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (farmer, husbandman, ploughman): agricola, agricultor, bubulcārius, bubulcus, colōnus ==== Derived terms ==== arātōrius ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “arator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “arator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "arator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “arator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.