Daily Ancestorvinitor
Vinitor is Latin for a vinedresser, a man who tended and pruned vines in a vineyard.
Vinitor comes from vinum, wine. Lewis and Short and Wiktionary define it as a vinedresser, one who works in a vineyard. The feminine is vinitrix.
You find it in wine country registers as the father's or groom's trade. It says nothing about whether the man owned the vineyard; land or tax records can tell you that.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Hungary, 1810s
Joannes, filius Michaelis Halaszi, vinitoris
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