Daily Ancestorfigulus
Figulus is Latin for a potter, a man who shaped and fired clay vessels; figuli means of the potter.
Figulus means potter, a maker of clay vessels.
In a register it gives a man's trade. The genitive figuli follows the father's name in baptism entries, and the nominative figulus appears in marriage and burial entries for the man himself.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Austria, 1800s
Josephus, filius Thomae Kolbinger, figuli
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