rūricola, ae, adj. gen. omn. [rus-colo], that tills the ground; that lives in or belongs to the country, rural, rustic (poet.); masc.: boves, Ov. M. 5, 479; id. F. 1, 384: Phryges, id. M. 11, 91: Fauni, id. ib. 6, 392: deus, i.e. Priapus, id. Tr. 1, 10, 26: dentes, i. e. hoes, Luc. 7, 859.

—Fem.: Ceres, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 53: formicula, App. M. 6, p. 177.

—Neutr.: aratrum, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 1.

— Subst.: rūrico-la, ae, m. A tiller of the ground, a husbandman, countryman, rustic (syn. colonus); plur., Col. 10, 337; Nemes. Ecl. 1, 52.

— An ox or bull, Ov. M. 15, 124.