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Sutor is Latin for a shoemaker or cobbler; sutoris after a man's name means he was a shoemaker.
Sutor means shoemaker or cobbler, a man who made or mended shoes. It comes from suo, to sew.
Watch the ending: the genitive sutoris (of the shoemaker) appears when the father's trade follows his name. Other Latin words for the same trade exist, such as calceator and calcearius, so a family can be described with different words in different entries.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Bohemia, 1810s
Maria, filia Wenceslai Dvorak, sutoris, et Catharinae uxoris
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