English → Latin
“cutter” in Latin
sectorcutter (one who cuts or cuts off); purchaser or bidder (someone who buys or attempts to buy at a sale of confiscated gooculterknife; razordolābrapickaxecercūrusa cercurus (fast, light vessel used by the Cyprians); a type of marine fishdēnsa tooth; a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection; tooth of envy, envy, ill willfēnumhaylapidāriusstone; stonyPaulusA cognomen of the Aemilius clan.; Paul (biblical figure).
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cutter
sector (general term for one who cuts anything, cuts off or into pieces, etc.; e.g., hay, feni, Col.): a glass-cutter, vitri caelator; vitri torno terendi artifex [SYN. in “to cut glass,” in To CUT]: a stone-cutter, lapidarius (post-Augustan. ☞ Quadratarius is one who cuts stone out of a quarry; late).
A cutting instrument, culter; dolabra (= a butcher’s chopper, Paullus, Dig., 33, 7, 18).
A sort of small vessel (perhaps), cercurus (κέρκουρος).
Cutters (teeth), dentes, qui digerunt cibum lati acutique (Plin.): dentes, qui secant (Cels.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cutter?
- The usual Latin words for “cutter” are sector, culter, dolābra; also cercūrus, dēns, fēnum. 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.