sculptor

English

Etymology

From Latin sculptor.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌlptɚ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

sculptor (plural sculptors)

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.
Hyponym: sculptress

Translations

a person who sculpts

Albanina: gdhendës (sq) m, gdhendëse,
Arabic: نَحَّات m (naḥḥāt), مَثَّال m (maṯṯāl)
Armenian: քանդակագործ (hy) (kʻandakagorc)
Azerbaijani: heykəltəraş (az)
Basque: eskultore, zizelkari
Belarusian: разьбя́р m (razʹbjár), ску́льптар m (skúlʹptar)
Bulgarian: ску́лптор (bg) m (skúlptor), ску́лпторка f (skúlptorka), ваятел (bg) m (vajatel)
Burmese: ပန်းပုဆရာ (my) (pan:pu.hca.ra)
Catalan: escultor (ca) m, escultora (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雕刻家 (zh) (diāokèjiā), 雕塑家 (zh) (diāosùjiā)
Czech: sochař (cs) m, sochařka (cs) f, řezbář (cs) m
Danish: billedhugger (da) c, skulptør c
Dutch: beeldhouwer (nl) m
Esperanto: skulptisto
Faroese: myndahøggari
Finnish: kuvanveistäjä (fi)
French: sculpteur (fr) m, sculptrice (fr) f
Galician: escultor (gl) m
Georgian: მოქანდაკე (mokandaḳe)
German: Skulpteur (de) m, Bildhauer (de) m, Bildhauerin (de) f
Greek: γλύπτης (el) m (glýptis), γλύπτρια (el) f (glýptria)
Ancient: γλύπτης m (glúptēs), ἀγαλματοποιός m (agalmatopoiós)
Hindi: मूर्तिकार (hi) (mūrtikār), संगतराश (hi) (saṅgatrāś), बुततराश (butatrāś), नक़्क़ाश (naqqāś)
Hungarian: szobrász (hu)
Icelandic: myndhöggvari (is) m
Ido: skultisto (io), skultero
Indonesian: pemahat (id)
Irish: dealbhóir m, snoíodóir m
Italian: scultore (it) m, scultrice (it) f
Japanese: 彫刻家 (ja) (ちょうこくか, chōkokuka)
Kazakh: мүсінші (müsınşı)
Korean: 조각가 (ko) (jogakga)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: sculptor m
Lithuanian: skulptorius (lt) m
Macedonian: вајар m (vajar), скулптор m (skulptor)
Maori: kaiwhakairo, kaitārai
Norman: stchulpteux m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skulptør m, billedhugger

Nynorsk: skulptør m, bilethoggar
Occitan: esculptor m
Old East Slavic: ваꙗтель m (vajatelĭ)
Polish: rzeźbiarz (pl) m, rzeźbiarka (pl) f
Portuguese: escultor (pt) m
Romanian: sculptor (ro) m, sculptoriță (ro) f
Russian: ску́льптор (ru) m (skúlʹptor), вая́тель (ru) m (vajátelʹ), вая́тельница (ru) f (vajátelʹnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ки̏па̄р m

Roman: kȉpār (sh) m
Slovak: sochár (sk) m, sochárka f
Slovene: kipar (sl) m
Spanish: escultor (es) m, escultora (es) f
Swedish: skulptör (sv) c, bildhuggare (sv) c
Tagalog: manlililok
Telugu: శిల్పి (te) (śilpi)
Thai: ประติมากร (bprà-dtì-maa-gɔɔn)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: heykelci (tr), heykeltıraş (tr), yontucu (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎒𐎍 (psl)
Ukrainian: ску́льптор m (skúlʹptor), різьбя́р m (rizʹbjár)
Vietnamese: nhà điêu khắc

Latin

Etymology

From sculpō (“I sculpt”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskulp.tor/, [ˈs̠kʊɫ̪pt̪ɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskulp.tor/, [ˈskulpt̪or]

Noun

sculptor m (genitive sculptōris); third declension

stone-cutter, sculptor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sculptor	sculptōrēs
genitive	sculptōris	sculptōrum
dative	sculptōrī	sculptōribus
accusative	sculptōrem	sculptōrēs
ablative	sculptōre	sculptōribus
vocative	sculptor	sculptōrēs

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: escultor
French: sculpteur
Friulian: scultôr
Galician: escultor
Italian: scultore
Lombard: scultor
Occitan: esculptor
Piedmontese: scultor
Portuguese: escultor
Romanian: sculptor
Russian: ску́льптор (skúlʹptor)
Spanish: escultor

References

“sculptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sculptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“sculptor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sculpteur, from Latin scūlptor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skulpˈtor/

Noun

sculptor m (plural sculptori, feminine equivalent sculptoriță)

sculptor

Declension

Declension of sculptor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sculptor	sculptorul	(niște) sculptori	sculptorii
genitive/dative	(unui) sculptor	sculptorului	(unor) sculptori	sculptorilor
vocative	sculptorule		sculptorilor

References

sculptor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)