peculator

English

Etymology

From Latin pecūlātor (embezzler), from Latin pecūlor (I embezzle), from Latin pecūlium (private property).

Noun

peculator (plural peculators)

  1. A person who peculates; an embezzler.

Anagrams

Interlingua

Noun

peculator (plural peculatores)

  1. embezzler

Latin

Etymology

From pecūlor (I embezzle) + -tor, from pecūlium (private property).

Pronunciation

Noun

pecūlātor m (genitive pecūlātōris); third declension

  1. embezzler
    • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.53:
      mox compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari iussit.
      it being soon discovered that he had embezzled the public money, he directed that he should be prosecuted as a peculator.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pecūlātor pecūlātōrēs
Genitive pecūlātōris pecūlātōrum
Dative pecūlātōrī pecūlātōribus
Accusative pecūlātōrem pecūlātōrēs
Ablative pecūlātōre pecūlātōribus
Vocative pecūlātor pecūlātōrēs

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: peculator

References

  • peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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