culter

See also: Culter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

  1. Obsolete form of colter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for culter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension

  1. knife
    Synonym: novācula
  2. razor

Declension

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

Descendants

References
  • “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 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.
  1. 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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /ˈkultər/, /ˈkultrə/

Noun

culter (plural cultres)

  1. A coulter (of a plow)
  2. (rare) A knife or dagger.

Descendants

References

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culter, of unclear origin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkuɫ.ter]

Noun

culter ?

  1. A coulter (of a plow)
  2. (rare) A dagger.

Descendants

References
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