prosecutor

English

Etymology

1590s, from Medieval Latin prosecutor, from prōsequor (English prosecute).

Surface analysis is prosecute +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑsəˌkjuːtəɹ/

Noun

prosecutor (plural prosecutors)

1. (law) a prosecuting attorney.

   Annie Jay was the Wisconsin government prosecutor in the trial of a man for forging his client's signature.

2. (law) a person, as a complainant, victim, or chief witness, who institutes prosecution in a criminal proceeding.

   The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.

Derived terms

• prosecutorial

Related terms

• prosecute
• prosecution

Translations

prosecuting attorney

• Cebuano: prosekyutor
• Czech: prokurátor (cs) m, žalobce m
• Esperanto: akuzisto
• Hungarian: ügyész (hu)

• Italian: procuratore della repubblica m
• Polish: prokurator (pl) m
• Russian: прокуро́р (ru) m (prokurór)
• Spanish: acusador (es) m
• Thai: อัยการ (th) (ai-yá-gaan)

a person instituting criminal prosecution

• Albanian: prokuror (sq) m
• Arabic: مُدَّعٍ‎ m (muddaʿin), الْمُدَّعِي‏‎ m (al-muddaʿī) (definite)
• Armenian: դատախազ (hy) (dataxaz)
• Azerbaijani: prokuror, müddəi
• Belarusian: пракуро́р m (prakurór)
• Bengali: অভিশংসক (ôbhiśôngsôk)
• Bulgarian: прокуро́р m (prokurór), обвини́тел (bg) m (obvinítel)
• Catalan: fiscal (ca) m or f
• Cebuano: prosekyutor
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起訴人 (zh), 起诉人 (zh) (qǐsùrén), 檢察官 (zh), 检察官 (zh) (jiǎncháguān), 檢控官 (zh), 检控官 (zh) (kiǎnkòngguān), 原告 (zh) (yuángào)

• Czech: prokurátor (cs) m
• Danish: anklager (da) c
• Dutch: aanklager (nl) m
• Estonian: prokurör, süüdistaja
• Finnish: syyttäjä (fi)
• French: procureur (fr) m, procuratrice (fr) f, procureuse (fr) f
• Georgian: პროკურორი (ṗroḳurori)
• German: Staatsanwalt (de) m, Staatsanwältin (de) f, Amtsanwalt (de) m, Ankläger (de) m, Anklägerin (de) f
• Greek: κατήγορος (el) m (katígoros), εισαγγελέας (el) m (eisangeléas)
• Hebrew: תוֹבֵעַ‎
• Hindi: अभियोक्ता (hi) m (abhiyoktā)
• Icelandic: saksóknari m
• Italian: prosecutore m, procuratore (it) m
• Japanese: 検察 (ja) (けんさつ, kensatsu) (organization), 検察官 (ja) (けんさつかん, kensatsukan) (person)
• Kazakh: прокурор (prokwror)
• Korean: 검찰 (ko) (geomchal), 검찰관 (geomchalgwan), 검사 (ko) (geomsa)
• Kyrgyz: прокурор (prokuror)

• Lao: ໂຈດ (chōt)
• Latvian: prokurors m
• Lithuanian: prokuroras m
• Macedonian: обвинител m (obvinitel)
• Maori: kaiwhiu
• Mongolian: яллагч (mn) (jallagč)
• Pashto: څارنوال‎ (ps) m (cāranwãl)
• Persian: مدعی‎ (fa) (modda'i), دادستان‎ (fa) (dâdsetân)
• Polish: prokurator (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: promotor (pt) m, promotora (pt) f
• Romanian: procuror (ro) m
• Russian: прокуро́р (ru) m (prokurór), обвини́тель (ru) m (obvinítelʹ), обвини́тельница (ru) f (obvinítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ту̀житељ m, тужитѐљица f

  Roman: tùžitelj (sh) m, tužitèljica (sh) f

• Slovak: prokurátor m
• Slovene: tožilec m
• Spanish: fiscal (es) m or f
• Swahili: kiongozi wa mashtaka (sw)
• Swedish: åklagare (sv) c
• Tajik: прокурор (prokuror), додситон (dodsiton)
• Thai: โจทก์ (th) (jòot)
• Turkish: savcı (tr), davacı (tr)
• Turkmen: prokuror, garalawçy
• Ukrainian: прокуро́р m (prokurór)
• Uyghur: پروكۇرور‎ (prokuror)
• Uzbek: prokuror (uz), qoralovchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: công tố viên, người khởi tố, bên nguyên (vi), biện lý