ruricola
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rūs (“the country”) + -cola (“cultivator, dweller”). The latter comes from colō (“to till, cultivate”) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ruːˈri.ko.la/, [ruːˈrɪkɔɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ruˈri.ko.la/, [ruˈriːkolä]
Adjective
[edit]rūricola (genitive rūricolae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)
- that tills the soil
- rural, rustic
- 1732 [1731], Antoine Augustin Calmet, “Commentarium in Jeremiam. Cap. XVII”, in Commentarium literale in omnes ac singulos tum veteris cum novi testamenti libros[1], Venice: Sebastian Colet, translation of Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments (in French), page 98:
- Nullus dubito, V̄V̄. 2. et 3. ita conjungendos esse : Ut filii sui numquam obliviscantur altarium eorum, ac numinum ruricolarum (Hebraeus, Aserim) quae venerabantur in lucis fronde contectis, super excelsos colles, super montes, in agris.
- [original: Je ne doute pas qu’il ne faille joindre les versets 2. & 3. de cette forte: Afin que leurs enfants n’oublient jamais leurs Autels, & leurs divinitez bocagéres (Hébreu, Aserim) qu’ils adoroient dans les bois couverts de feüillages, sur les collines élevées, sur les montagnes, sur dans les compagnes.]
- I have no doubt that verses 2 and 3 are to be conjoined in this way: That their children never forget the altars and the rural deities (Hebrew, Asherim) that were worshiped in leafy sacred groves, on lofty hills, on the mountains, in the fields.
Declension
[edit]First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | rūricola | rūricolae | rūricola | ||
genitive | rūricolae | rūricolārum | |||
dative | rūricolae | rūricolīs | |||
accusative | rūricolam | rūricola | rūricolās | rūricola | |
ablative | rūricolā | rūricolīs | |||
vocative | rūricola | rūricolae | rūricola |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]rūricola m (genitive rūricolae); first declension
- countryman, rustic, farmer
- (usually in the plural) oxen
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | rūricola | rūricolae |
genitive | rūricolae | rūricolārum |
dative | rūricolae | rūricolīs |
accusative | rūricolam | rūricolās |
ablative | rūricolā | rūricolīs |
vocative | rūricola | rūricolae |
References
[edit]- “ruricola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ruricola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ruricola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ruricola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.