culter
See also: Culter
English edit
Noun edit
culter (plural culters)
References edit
- “culter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Explanations include:[1]
- From a formation equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kolh₂/₃-trom, from the root *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
- From the root *(s)ker- (“to shear, cut off”) to a preform *kor-tro- which has undergone dissimilation */rtr/ > /ltr/.
Both of the above etymologies assume a change in the suffix *-trom (and in gender), which otherwise would yield Latin *-trum or *-crum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkul̪t̪er]
Noun edit
culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | culter | cultrī |
Genitive | cultrī | cultrōrum |
Dative | cultrō | cultrīs |
Accusative | cultrum | cultrōs |
Ablative | cultrō | cultrīs |
Vocative | culter | cultrī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: coltre, coutre
- French: coutre
- Italian: coltro, cultro
- Portuguese: cultro
- Catalan: coltell
- Spanish: cuitre
- ⇒ Esperanto: koltro
- → Old Welsh: cultir
- → Proto-West Germanic:
References edit
- “culter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- culter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
- to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
- “culter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “culter”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough,1903.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “culter, -trī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English culter, from Latin culter, of unclear origin. Forms with final /ə/ may be due to influence from Old French coutre or due to an Old English ō-stem by-form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culter (plural cultres)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “culter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin culter, of unclear origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culter ?
Descendants edit
- Middle English: culter, colter, coltre, coltur, coulter, cultir, cultour, cultre, cultur, culture, koltre, kulter
References edit
- Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “culter”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I [2], Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.