LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

arātor

arātor m (genitive arātōris)
Classical[aˈraː.tɔr]Ecclesiastical[aˈraː.tor]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman (someone that ploughs/plows)
    Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quī arātrō terram vertit.
arātor -ōris m — in Mille Verba, Rūs et Agrīcultūra

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativearātorarātōrēs
genitivearātōrisarātōrum
dativearātōrīarātōribus
accusativearātōremarātōrēs
ablativearātōrearātōribus
vocativearātorarātōrēs

ărātor, ōris, m. aro.
I. A.. Lit., one that ploughs, a ploughman; freq. poet. = agricola, a husbandman, farmer, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38: caput quassans grandis suspirat arator Crebrius, * Lucr. 2, 1164: luce sacrā requiescat arator, Tib. 2, 1, 5: Concidere infelix validos miratur arator Inter opus tauros, Ov. M. 7, 538; 8, 218; 15, 553: neque jam stabulis gaudet pecus aut aratorigni, * Hor. C. 1, 4, 3 et saep.—Adj.: taurus arator, Ov. F. 1, 698: bos arator, Suet. Vesp. 5; v. Zumpt, § 102.—
B. In the Rom. lang. of finance, aratores, the cultivators of public lands for a tenth of the produce; cf. aratio, II. (usu. the Roman knights): aratorum penuria, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 55; so id. ib. 2, 1, 37; 2, 2, 13; 2, 2, 64; 2, 3, 20; 2, 3, 27; 2, 3, 50; id. Phil. 3, 9; Inscr. Orell. 3308; Suet. Aug. 42.—
II. Meton., The Ploughman, a constellation, Nigid. and Varr. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 19.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂erh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éryeti
  3. Latinarātor

Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trominflu. Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃yeti Proto-Italic *araō Latin arō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin arātor From arō (“to plough”) + -tor (agentive suffix).

Descendants
  • Catalanarador
  • Italianaratore
  • Portuguesearador
  • Romanianarător
  • Spanisharador
  • Aromanianarãtor
  • Friulianaradôr
  • Istriotaradòr

Quick answers

What does arātor mean in Latin?
arātor, a noun, means “ploughman or plowman, farmer, husbandman (someone that ploughs/plows)”.
What is the genitive of arātor?
The genitive singular is arātōris. arātor is masculine, third declension.
How do you pronounce arātor?
In classical Latin, [aˈraː.tɔr]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [aˈraː.tor].
Where does arātor come from?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- → Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti → Latin arātor.