Latin

Noun

arātor m ‎(genitive arātōris); third declension

1. Someone that ploughs or plows; ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman.
   • Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

     Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
     Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

     The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
     the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (farmer, husbandman, ploughman): agricola, agricultor, bubulcārius, bubulcus, colōnus

Derived terms

• arātōrius

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: arador
• Italian: aratore
• Portuguese: arador
• Romanian: arător
• Spanish: arador

References

• arator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ARATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.