sompter
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sumpter — noun Etymology: Middle English, short for sompter hors, from sompter driver of a packhorse, from Anglo French sumeter, from Vulgar Latin *sagmatarius, from Late Latin sagmat , sagma packsaddle, from Greek; akin to Greek sattein to pack, stuff… … New Collegiate Dictionary
sumpter — /sump teuhr/, n. a packhorse or mule. [1275 1325; ME sompter < OF sometier pack horse driver < VL *saumatarius, equiv. to L sagmat (s. of sagma; see SUMMER2) + arius ARY] * * * … Universalium
Sumpter — Found recorded in the usual spellings of Sumpter and Sunter, the latter being the dialectal form, this ancient surname is occupational. It describes a driver of a pack horse train , and as such is an anglicised development of the Olde French… … Surnames reference
Sunter — Found recorded in the usual spellings of Sumpter and Sunter, the latter being the dialectal form, this ancient surname is occupational. It describes a driver of a pack horse train , and as such is an anglicised development of the Olde French… … Surnames reference
sumpter — sump•ter [[t]ˈsʌmp tər[/t]] n. agr. a packhorse or mule • Etymology: 1275–1325; ME sompter < OF sometier pack horse driver < VL *saumatārius= L sagmat (s. of sagma; see summer II) + ārius ary … From formal English to slang
sumpter — [sump′tər] n. [ME sompter, pack horse, orig., driver of a pack horse < OFr sometier < LL * sagmatarius < LL sagma (gen. sagmatis), packsaddle: see SUMMER2] a pack animal … English World dictionary
