procurator

English

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Etymology

Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (I procure) (English procure). Equivalent to procure + -ator.

Pronunciation

Noun

procurator (plural procurators)

  1. A tax collector.
  2. An agent or attorney.
  3. A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
  4. (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.

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References

  • OED2

Latin

Etymology

From prōcūrō (I manage, administer) + -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātōris); third declension

  1. manager, overseer, superintendent
  2. procurator (office)
  3. agent, deputy
  4. tax collector (during the imperial eras)

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

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, 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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French procurateur, from Latin procurator.

Noun

procurator m (plural procuratori)

  1. procurator

Declension

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