different between roturier vs roturer

English

Borrowed from French roturier.

roturier (plural roturiers)

A commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank.
- 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
  He cannot forgive Socrates for his humble origin; he calls him a "roturier," and accuses him of corrupting the noble Athenian youth with a democratic moral bias.

From roture +? -ier. Compare Medieval Latin ruptur?rius.

roturier (feminine singular roturière, masculine plural roturiers, feminine plural roturières)

roturier m (plural roturiers, feminine roturière)

roturer (plural roturers)

Obsolete form of roturier.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

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