sculptor

Borrowed from Latin sculptor, equivalent to sculpt +‎ -or.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskʌlptɚ/

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sculptor (plural sculptors)

1. A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.

   Hyponym: sculptress

   • 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 August 2016:

     The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

From sculpō (“to sculpt”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskʊɫp.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskulp.t̪or]

sculptor m (genitive sculptōris); third declension

1. stone-cutter, sculptor

Third-declension noun.

• sculpō
• sculptilis

• “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

Borrowed from French sculpteur, from Latin scūlptor.

• IPA^(key): /skulpˈtor/

sculptor m (plural sculptori, feminine equivalent sculptoriță)

1. sculptor

• “sculptor”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025