English

Noun

lapicide ‎(plural lapicides)

1. A stonecutter.
   • 2003: Adam Łajtar et al., Catalogue of the Greek inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum,

     Letters omitted by the lapicide or evident mistakes of the lapicide corrected by the editor.

   • 1996: John Percival Postgate, Edward Vernon Arnold, Frederick William Hall, Classical quarterly,

     […] made by Wosnick several decades ago, that the name M. Silanus Murena is the result of a lapicide's error and that this part of the inscription was […]

   • 1959 British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Anatolian studies,

     One or two cracks in the rock have been avoided by the lapicide.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin lapicida.

Noun

lapicide m, f ‎(plural lapicides)

1. lapicide