sutor

See also: Sutor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūtor.

Noun

sutor (plural sutors)

1. (obsolete) shoemaker; cobbler.

Anagrams

• Rusto, Stour, Tours, roust, routs, stour, torus, tours

Latin

Etymology

From suō (“to sew, stitch, join, fasten together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.tor]

Noun

sūtor m (genitive sūtōris, feminine sūtrīx); third declension

1. shoemaker, cobbler.
   • 77, Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 35.86 [1] (translation Eugene Ehrlich, Say It in Latin, →ISBN)

     Ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret. — The cobbler should not judge above the sandal.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sūtor	sūtōrēs
genitive	sūtōris	sūtōrum
dative	sūtōrī	sūtōribus
accusative	sūtōrem	sūtōrēs
ablative	sūtōre	sūtōribus
vocative	sūtor	sūtōrēs

Synonyms

• (shoemaker): calceāmentārius, calceātor, calceolārius, caligārius

Derived terms

• sūtōrīcius
• sūtōrius
• sūtrīballus
• sūtrīnus
• sūtrīx

Related terms

• suō
• sūtēla
• sūtilis
• sūtrīna
• sūtrīnum
• sūtum
• sūtūra

Descendants

• Italian: sotularo (crossed with calceolārius)
• Old French: suor
  • Middle French: sueur
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *consūtor
  • Italian: costore (Tuscan)
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: sutore
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *sūtārī (see there for further descendants)

References

• “sutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sutor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sutor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sutor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sutor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers