ruricola

From rūs (“the country”) +‎ -cola (“cultivator, dweller”). The latter comes from colō (“to till, cultivate”) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ruːˈrɪ.kɔ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ruˈriː.ko.la]

rūricola (genitive rūricolae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms)

1. that tills the soil
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 4.6.1:

     Tempore rūricolae patiēns fit taurus arātrī

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. rural, rustic
   • 1732 [1731], Antoine Augustin Calmet, “Commentarium in Jeremiam. Cap. XVII”, in Commentarium literale in omnes ac singulos tum veteris cum novi testamenti libros‎^[1], Venice: Sebastian Colet, translation of Commentaire littéral sur tous les livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testaments (in French), page 98:

     Nullus dubito, V̄V̄. 2. et 3. ita conjungendos esse : Ut filii sui numquam obliviscantur altarium eorum, ac numinum ruricolarum (Hebraeus, Aserim) quae venerabantur in lucis fronde contectis, super excelsos colles, super montes, in agris.

     [original: Je ne doute pas qu'il ne faille joindre les versets 2. & 3. de cette forte: Afin que leurs enfants n'oublient jamais leurs Autels, & leurs divinitez bocagéres (Hébreu, Aserim) qu'ils adoroient dans les bois couverts de feüillages, sur les collines élevées, sur les montagnes, sur dans les compagnes.]

     I have no doubt that verses 2 and 3 are to be conjoined in this way: That their children never forget the altars and the rural deities (Hebrew, Asherim) that were worshiped in leafy sacred groves, on lofty hills, on the mountains, in the fields.

First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

• rūricolāris

• rūs
• rūsticus

rūricola m (genitive rūricolae); first declension

1. countryman, rustic, farmer
2. (usually in the plural) oxen

First-declension noun.

• “ruricola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ruricola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "ruricola", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ruricola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.