sculptor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sculptor, ōris, m. [sculpo],

one who cuts , carves , or engraves in stone, wood, etc. (cf.: fictor, plastes), a stone-cutter , graver , sculptor , Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 132; 36, 5, 4, § 11 (Jahn reads throughout scalptor); Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 4: opere sculptoris, Vulg. Exod. 23, 11; Cassiod. Var. 7, 5 (sometimes confounded with scalptor).

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