fictor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪktə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)

Noun

fictor (plural fictors)

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

References
  • 1826, James Elmes A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts
  • fictor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Coordinate terms

References
  • “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
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