Latin

Noun

pecūlātus m ‎(genitive pecūlātūs); fourth declension

1. embezzlement of public money or property, peculation

Inflection

Fourth declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “peculatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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