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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *siuH-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsuː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsuː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sūtor''' ''m'' (genitive sūtōris, feminine sūtrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|suō|-tor|t1=to sew]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|suō]] to [[itc-pro|*s(j)ūje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*siuH-ie/o-|t=to sew]], cognate with [[sa|सीव्य-|tr=sī́vya-|t=to sew]] and [[lt|siū́ti|t=to sew]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who mentions shoemakers twice in the ''Aulularia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a shoemaker or cobbler.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Asellio, quoted by Gellius, speaks of a sandal-maker, ''sūtor crepidārius'', and Varro and Martial use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions name a guild of shoemakers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The word also stood for the common people: Cicero describes shoemakers and belt-makers shouting their approval, and Juvenal uses it the same way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it is a patcher of things: Sidonius Apollinaris and Augustine speak of a cobbler of tales.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of shoemakers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of a cobbler.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shoemaker]], [[m|en|cobbler]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sūtōricius]]

+ * [[sūtrīnus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suō]]

+ * [[sūtōrius]]

+ * [[cōnsuō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The proverb ''nē sūtor suprā crepidam'', "let the cobbler not judge above the sandal", that is, stick to what one knows, goes back to a story in Pliny the Elder and Valerius Maximus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}