culter

culter

See also: Culter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

1. Obsolete form of colter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for culter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Cutler, Lucret, cutler, reluct

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Explanations include:[1]

• From a formation equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kolh₂_/₃-trom, from the root *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
• From the root *(s)ker- (“to shear, cut off”) to a preform *kor-tro- which has undergone dissimilation */rtr/ > /ltr/.

Both of the above etymologies assume a change in the suffix *-trom (and in gender), which otherwise would yield Latin *-trum or *-crum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkul̪t̪er]

Noun

culter m (genitive cultrī); second declension

1. knife

   Synonym: novācula

2. razor

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	culter	cultrī
Genitive	cultrī	cultrōrum
Dative	cultrō	cultrīs
Accusative	cultrum	cultrōs
Ablative	cultrō	cultrīs
Vocative	culter	cultrī

Derived terms

• cultellus

Descendants

• Old French: coltre, coutre
  • French: coutre
• Italian: coltro
• Portuguese: cultro
• Spanish: cuitre
• ⇒ Esperanto: koltro
• → Old Welsh: cultir
  • Middle Welsh: culldyr, kulldyr
    • Welsh: cwlltr, cwlltwr
• → Proto-West Germanic:
  • Old English: culter, cultor, cultur
    • Middle English: culter, colter, coltre, coltur, coulter, cultir, cultour, cultre, cultur, culture, koltre, kulter
      • English: colter, coulter (obsolete culter)
      • Scots: couter, cooter
  • Middle Dutch: couter
    • Dutch: kouter
  • Middle Low German: kolter
    • → German: Kolter

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
• culter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “culter, -trī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• colter, coltre, coltur, coulter, cultir, cultour, cultre, cultur, culture, koltre, kulter

Etymology

Inherited from Old English culter, from Latin culter, of unclear origin. Forms with final /ə/ may be due to influence from Old French coutre or due to an Old English ō-stem by-form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkultər/, /ˈkultrə/

Noun

culter (plural cultres)

1. A coulter (of a plow)
2. (rare) A knife or dagger.

Descendants

• English: colter, coulter (obsolete culter)
• Scots: couter, cooter

References

• “culter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• cultor, cultur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culter, of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkul.ter/, [ˈkuɫ.ter]

Noun

culter ?

1. A coulter (of a plow)
2. (rare) A dagger.

Descendants

• Middle English: culter, colter, coltre, coltur, coulter, cultir, cultour, cultre, cultur, culture, koltre, kulter
  • English: colter, coulter (obsolete culter)
  • Scots: couter, cooter

References

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “culter”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, OCLC 213811593.