correus

See also: Correus

English

Etymology

First attested in the singular in 1656 and in the plural in 1707; elliptical use from correus debendi.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏʹrĭəs, kərēʹəs; IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹɪəs/, /kəˈɹiːəs/

Noun

correus (plural correi)

1. Synonym of correus debendi
   • 1656 June 7, John Thurloe (author) and Thomas Birch (editor), “A letter of intelligence from the Hague, 7 June 1656” in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe V (London, 1742), page 71

     When a creditor will accept ſolutionem particularum vel correi, the debtor or the correus muſt pay

   • 1707 December 17, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall (editor), The Deciſions of the Lords of Council and Seſſion, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712 II (Edinburgh, 1761), page 404

     Since this act, few take bonds with cautioners, but bind them all as correi and principals.

Anagrams

• courser, scourer, sourcer

Catalan

Noun

correus

1. plural of correu

Latin

Etymology

cor- (“joint”) +‎ reus (“accused”, “defendant”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.re.us/, [ˈkɔrːeʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.re.us/, [ˈkɔrːeus]

Noun

correus m (genitive correī); second declension

1. a partaker in guilt, a joint criminal, a partner in crime, an accomplice

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	correus	correī
Genitive	correī	correōrum
Dative	correō	correīs
Accusative	correum	correōs
Ablative	correō	correīs
Vocative	corree	correī

Descendants

• English: correal, correus debendi

References

• “correus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• correus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• correus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “correus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “correus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “correus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin