different between tailor vs sartor

English

Alternative forms

• tailour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tali?, from Latin t?lea (“a cutting”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?te?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?te?l?/
• Homophone: tailer
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

tailor (plural tailors)

1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

2. (Australia) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
   • 1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)

     The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.

Synonyms

• (fish): bluefish

Derived terms

Related terms

• dressmaker
• seamster

Translations

Verb

tailor (third-person singular simple present tailors, present participle tailoring, simple past and past participle tailored)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make, repair, or alter clothes.

2. (transitive) To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

3. (transitive) To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

Translations

See also

• Taylor

References

• Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• Liator, Rialto, Triola

English

Etymology

Latin sartor

Noun

sartor (plural sartors)

1. (obsolete) A tailor.

Related terms

• sartorial

Anagrams

• rostra

Latin

Etymology

Derived from sartus, past participle of sarci? ("I patch, mend")

Noun

sartor m (genitive sart?ris, feminine sartr?x); third declension

1. A mender.
2. A patcher.
3. A tailor.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Related terms

• sart?rius

References

• sartor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sartor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sartor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sar?tur/

Noun

sartor m

1. tailor