arator

From arō (“plough, till”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈraː.tor/, [äˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.tor/, [äˈräːt̪or]

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.

Third-declension noun.

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

• arātōrius

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.