lictor

English

Alternative forms

• lictour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪktə/

Noun

lictor (plural lictors)

1. An officer in ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     ‘Beware the power of the mob, Caesar.’ Then, schooled in needful agility, he ran away before a lictor’s whip could reach him.

Translations

officer in ancient Rome

• French: licteur (fr) m
• German: Liktor (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥάβδουχος m (rhábdoukhos)

• Italian: littore m
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• Latin: līctor m
• Polish: liktor (pl) m
• Portuguese: lictor m
• Spanish: lictor m

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliːk.tor/, [ˈlʲiːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlik.tor/, [ˈlikt̪or]

Noun

līctor m (genitive līctōris); third declension

1. lictor (officer in Ancient Rome)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līctor	līctōrēs
Genitive	līctōris	līctōrum
Dative	līctōrī	līctōribus
Accusative	līctōrem	līctōrēs
Ablative	līctōre	līctōribus
Vocative	līctor	līctōrēs

Descendants

• English: lictor
• French: licteur
• Italian: littore
• Polish: liktor
• Spanish: lictor

References

• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lictors clear the way: lictores summovent turbam (Liv. 4. 50)
    
• “lictor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lictor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)

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Spanish

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)