Latin edit

Etymology edit

messus (perfect active participle of metō (I reap, harvest)) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

messor m (genitive messōris, feminine mestrīx); third declension

  1. reaper
  2. mower
  3. harvester

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative messor messōrēs
Genitive messōris messōrum
Dative messōrī messōribus
Accusative messōrem messōrēs
Ablative messōre messōribus
Vocative messor messōrēs

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Italian: messore (learned)

References edit

  • messor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • messor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • messor 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)
  • messor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette