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Webster 1913 Edition
Procurator
1.
(Law)
One who manages another’s affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.
Chaucer. Shak.
2.
(Rom. Antiq.)
A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province;
as, the
. procurator
of JudeaProcurator fiscal
(Scots Law)
, public prosecutor, or district attorney.
Webster 1828 Edition
Procurator
PROC'URATOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
procurator
procurator
English
Alternative forms
- procuratour (obsolete)
Noun
procurator (plural procurators)
- A tax collector.
- An agent or attorney.
- A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
- (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.
See also
- (legal): inquisitor
Related terms
Translations
tax collector
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legal officer in communist country collector
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Ancient Rome: governor of small province
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References
- OED2
Latin
Etymology
From prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proː.kuːˈraː.tor/, [proː.kuːˈraː.tɔr]
Noun
prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātoris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
| genitive | prōcūrātōris | prōcūrātōrum |
| dative | prōcūrātōrī | prōcūrātōribus |
| accusative | prōcūrātōrem | prōcūrātōrēs |
| ablative | prōcūrātōre | prōcūrātōribus |
| vocative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
Descendants
- English: procurator
- Polish: prokurator
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, 1883–1887)
- procurator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procurator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) 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