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ruricola

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Latin

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Etymology

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From rūs (the country) +‎ -cola (cultivator, dweller). The latter comes from colō (to till, cultivate) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rūricola (genitive rūricolae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)

  1. that tills the soil
  2. 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

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First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

singular plural
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

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Noun

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rūricola m (genitive rūricolae); first declension

  1. countryman, rustic, farmer
  2. (usually in the plural) oxen

Declension

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First-declension noun.

References

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  • 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.