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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la colō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkʊɫ.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkul.tor]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cultor''' ''m'' (genitive cultōris, feminine cultrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ ''Agrī cultor'' is sometimes written as one word.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[colō]] “to inhabit, cultivate, worship” with the suffix [[-tor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of an inhabitant, and Cato, of an observer of laws.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant an inhabitant, as in Plautus, and in Cicero a cultivator of land, a grower, a keeper of animals, as ''agrī cultor'' a farmer.^(OLD 2012) In Horace it meant a worshipper of a god, in Livy a partisan, in Cato an observer of laws or religious practices, and in Ovid someone devoted to an occupation.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a planter, cultivator, professor, worshipper, dweller.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a manorial administrator.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''cultore'' and Spanish ''cultor''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of an inhabitant.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of an observer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a cultivator.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a worshipper.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # An inhabitant.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A cultivator, ''agrī cultor'', a [[m|en|farmer]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A [[m|en|worshipper]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A partisan; an observer (of laws).^(OLD 2012)
+ # A devotee (of an occupation).^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A manorial administrator.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[agricultor]]
+ * [[unicultor]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[agricola]]
+ * [[colō]]
+ * [[colōna]]
+ * [[colōnārius]]
+ * [[colōnātus]]
+ * [[colōnia]]
+ * [[colōniārius]]
+ * [[colōnicus]]
+ * [[colōnus]]
+ * [[culta]]
+ * [[cultūra]]
+ * [[cultus]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}