fictor

English

Etymology

Noun

fictor (plural fictors)

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fictor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

fricot

Latin

Noun

fictor m (genitive fictōris); third declension

maker (especially of statuary images)
creator

Inflection

Third declension.

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

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, 1883–1887)
fictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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