procurator
English
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Alternative forms
- procuratour (obsolete)
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. procuratour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“I procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure + -ator.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: proc‧u‧ra‧tor
Noun
procurator (plural procurators)
- A tax collector.
- An agent or attorney.
- A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
- (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.
Related terms
Translations
tax collector
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agent or attorney
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legal officer in communist country collector
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Ancient Rome: governor of small province
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See also
- (legal): inquisitor
References
- OED2
Latin
Etymology
From prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proː.kuːˈraː.tor/, [proːkuːˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro.kuˈra.tor/, [prokuˈräːt̪or]
Noun
prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
Genitive | prōcūrātōris | prōcūrātōrum |
Dative | prōcūrātōrī | prōcūrātōribus |
Accusative | prōcūrātōrem | prōcūrātōrēs |
Ablative | prōcūrātōre | prōcūrātōribus |
Vocative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
Descendants
- English: procurator, proctor
- Polish: prokurator
References
- “procurator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “procurator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procurator 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)
- “procurator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procurator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “procurator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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