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“cultivator” in Latin
cultorcultivator, tiller, husbandman, planter, grower (someone who bestows care or labor upon something); inhabitant, dweller;agricolafarmeragricultoragriculturist; farmer; husbandmancolōnusfarmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil; colonist, colonial, inhabitasatorsower, planter; founder; progenitorcūrōto arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to; to heal, cure; to govern, command, preside ovefautorpatron, protector; admirer; promoter, supporteristhis or that man, woman or thing; he, she, it, they (previously introduced); this or that [man, woman or thing] (as a no
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cultivator
With reference to agriculture, cultor: agricola: agricultor: colonus: ☞ ruricola is poetical only [SYN. in PEASANT]: sator: qui serit (who plants; ☞ plantator or qui plantat is not classical): the cultivators of the soil in Sicily, ii, qui in Sicilia arant.
In an intellectual point of view, cultor: curator (who takes care of anything in general): educator et altor (after Cic., De N.D., 2, 34, in., one that nourishes and fosters): fautor (one who protects or patronizes ahy or anything): to be a cultivator of an art, arti alicui studere. Vid: To CULTIVATE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cultivator?
- The usual Latin words for “cultivator” are cultor, agricola, agricultor; also colōnus, sator, cūrō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.