different between culter vs colter

English

Noun

culter (plural culters)

1. Obsolete form of colter.

Anagrams

• Cutler, Lucret, cutler, reluct

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Explanations include:

• From a formation equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kolh?_/?-trom, from the root *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
• From the root *(s)ker- (“to shear, cut off”) to a preform *kor-tro- which has undergone dissimilation */rtr/ > /ltr/.

Both of the above etymologies assume a change in the suffix *-trom (and in gender), which otherwise would yield Latin *-trum or *-crum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kul.ter/, [?k???t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kul.ter/, [?kul?t??r]

Noun

culter m (genitive cultr?); second declension

1. knife
2. razor

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Derived terms

• cultellus

Descendants

• Old French: coltre, coutre
  • French: coutre
• Italian: coltro
• ? West Germanic: [Term?]
  • Old English: culter
    • English: coulter, colter
  • Middle Dutch: couter
    • Dutch: kouter
  • Middle Low German: kolter
    • ? German: Kolter
• Portuguese: cultro
• Spanish: cuitre

References

• culter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• culter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culter in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough,1903.

English

Alternative forms

• coulter (mostly Commonwealth)
• culter

Etymology

From Old English culter, from Latin culter (“a knife”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?lt??/

Noun

colter (plural colters)

1. A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.9:

     I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
2. The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 82

Anagrams

• Cotler, lector