messor

Latin

Etymology

meto (harvest, reap) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.sor/, [ˈmɛs̠ːɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.sor/, [ˈmɛsːor]

Noun

messor m (genitive messōris, feminine mestrīx); third declension

1. reaper
2. mower
3. harvester

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	messor	messōrēs
Genitive	messōris	messōrum
Dative	messōrī	messōribus
Accusative	messōrem	messōrēs
Ablative	messōre	messōribus
Vocative	messor	messōrēs

Related terms

• messiō
• messis
• metō

 

Descendants

• → Italian: messore (learned)

References

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