Daily Ancestorhortulanus
Hortulanus is Latin for a gardener, a man who tended or worked a garden plot.
Hortulanus is a postclassical word built on hortulus, a little garden. As an adjective it means of a garden; as a noun it means a gardener.
If a family is called hortulanus in one entry and agricola in another, compare the dates: the change may reflect a change in how much land they worked, which a land or tax record could confirm.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Silesia, 1790s
Sepulta est Catharina, uxor Georgii Gartner, hortulani
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