messor

See also: Messor

Latin

Etymology

meto (harvest, reap) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛs.sor]

Noun

messor m (genitive messōris, feminine mestrīx); third declension

1. reaper
2. mower
3. harvester

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	messor	messōrēs
genitive	messōris	messōrum
dative	messōrī	messōribus
accusative	messōrem	messōrēs
ablative	messōre	messōribus
vocative	messor	messōrēs

Related terms

• messiō
• messis
• metō

Descendants

• → Italian: messore (learned)
• → Translingual: Messor

References

• “messor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “messor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "messor", 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)
• “messor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.