English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fictor (plural fictors)

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

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension

  1. maker (especially of statuary images)
  2. creator

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fictor fictōrēs
Genitive fictōris fictōrum
Dative fictōrī fictōribus
Accusative fictōrem fictōrēs
Ablative fictōre fictōribus
Vocative fictor fictōrēs

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References edit

  • 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.