peculatus

Latin

Etymology

From pecūlor +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pecūlātus m (genitive pecūlātūs); fourth declension

  1. embezzlement of public money or property, peculation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pecūlātus pecūlātūs
Genitive pecūlātūs pecūlātuum
Dative pecūlātuī pecūlātibus
Accusative pecūlātum pecūlātūs
Ablative pecūlātū pecūlātibus
Vocative pecūlātus pecūlātūs

Descendants
  • Spanish: peculado

References
  • “peculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “peculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peculatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to embezzle money: peculatum facere (Rab. Perd. 3. 8)
    • to accuse some one of malversation, embezzlement of public money: accusare aliquem peculatus, pecuniae publicae
  • “peculatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “peculatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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