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Webster 1913 Edition


Culter

Cul′ter

(k?l′t?r)
,
Noun.
[L.]
A colter. See
Colter
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Culter

CULTER

,
Noun.
[L.] A colter, which see.

Definition 2024


Culter

Culter

See also: culter

Translingual

Proper noun

Culter m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

culter

culter

See also: Culter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

  1. Alternative form of colter


Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kertro-[1], derived from a root *ker-, *sker- (shear).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension

  1. knife
  2. 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 culter1 cultrī

1May also be cultre.

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
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “culter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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. “coltello” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2