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From Latin lapicida. Compare -cide.

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lapicide (plural lapicides)

  1. A stonecutter.
    • 2003, Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum[1]:
      Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.
    • 1996, John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall, Classical quarterly[2]:
      [] made by Wosnick several decades ago, that the name M. Silanus Murena is the result of a lapicide's error and that this part of the inscription was []
    • 1959, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Anatolian studies[3]:
      One or two cracks in the rock have been avoided by the lapicide.

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Etymology edit

From Latin lapicida.

Noun edit

lapicide m or f by sense (plural lapicides)

  1. lapicide

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