culter

See also: Culter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Cutler, Lucret, cutler, reluct

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkʊɫ.tɛr]

Noun

culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension

knife
razor

Inflection

Second declension, 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

cultellus

Descendants

French: coutre
Italian: coltro
Old English: culter
English: coulter, colter
Portuguese: cultro
Spanish: cuchillo (by diminutive cultello), cuitre

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.

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