lapicide
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lapicida. Compare -cide.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lapicide (plural lapicides)
- 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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French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
lapicide m or f by sense (plural lapicides)
Further reading edit
- “lapicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.