ruricola

Latin

Etymology

From rūs (“the country”) + colō (“I till, cultivate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ruːˈri.ko.la/, [ruːˈrɪkɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈri.ko.la/, [ruˈriːkolä]

Adjective

rūricola (genitive rūricolae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)

1. that tills the soil
2. rural, rustic
   • 1732 [1731], Antoine Augustin Calmet, “Commentarium in Jeremiam. Cap. XVII”, in Commentarium literale in omnes ac singulos tum veteris cum novi testamenti libros‎^[1], Venice: Sebastian Colet, translation of Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments (in French), page 98:

     Nullus dubito, V̄V̄. 2. et 3. ita conjungendos esse : Ut filii sui numquam obliviscantur altarium eorum, ac numinum ruricolarum (Hebraeus, Aserim) quae venerabantur in lucis fronde contectis, super excelsos colles, super montes, in agris.

     [original: Je ne doute pas qu’il ne faille joindre les versets 2. & 3. de cette forte: Afin que leurs enfants n’oublient jamais leurs Autels, & leurs divinitez bocagéres (Hébreu, Aserim) qu’ils adoroient dans les bois couverts de feüillages, sur les collines élevées, sur les montagnes, sur dans les compagnes.]

     I have no doubt that verses 2 and 3 are to be conjoined in this way: That their children never forget the altars and the rural deities (Hebrew, Asherim) that were worshiped in leafy sacred groves, on lofty hills, on the mountains, in the fields.

Declension

First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	rūricola			rūricolae	rūricola
Genitive	rūricolae			rūricolārum
Dative				rūricolīs
Accusative	rūricolam	rūricola		rūricolās	rūricola
Ablative	rūricolā			rūricolīs
Vocative	rūricola			rūricolae	rūricola

Derived terms

• rūricolāris

Related terms

• rūs
• rūsticus

Noun

rūricola m (genitive rūricolae); first declension

1. countryman, rustic, farmer
2. (usually in the plural) oxen

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rūricola	rūricolae
Genitive	rūricolae	rūricolārum
Dative	rūricolae	rūricolīs
Accusative	rūricolam	rūricolās
Ablative	rūricolā	rūricolīs
Vocative	rūricola	rūricolae

References

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