Translingual

Proper noun

Culter m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Ostariophysi - superorder; Cypriniformes - order; Cyprinoidea - superfamily; Cyprinidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Culter alburnus, Culter flavipinnis, Culter oxycephaloides, Culter recurviceps - species

English

Noun

culter ‎(plural culters)

1. Alternative form of colter

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kertro-^[1], derived from a root *ker-, *sker- ‎(“shear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkʊɫ.tɛr]

Noun

culter m ‎(genitive cultrī); second declension

1. knife
2. razor

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be cultre.

Derived terms

• cultellus

Descendants

• French: coutre
• Italian: coltro
• Old English: culter

  English: coulter, colter

• Portuguese: cultro
• Spanish: cuchillo (by diminutive cultello)

References

• culter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “culter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    
• culter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culter in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough,1903.

1. ↑ “coltello” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2