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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βιοκωλυτής (biokōlutḗs).
Pronunciation
Noun
biocōlȳta m (genitive biocōlȳtae); first declension
- (New Latin) police officer, one who protects against violence
- 2003, Reijo Pitkäranta, De viro ministricidii suspecto , Nuntii Latini 19.9.2003
Biocolytae nuntiaverunt sibi persuasum esse de eodem homine agi, qui photographematis testificatis in pantopolio eodem tempore fuisset, cum Anna Lindh cultro percuteretur.- Police have pronounced themselves satisfied that the same person who was caught by camera surveillance in the department store at the same time as when Anna Lindh was stabbed by a knife, did the deed.
Ephemeris (
Lydia Ariminensis),
Magnae Caedes Lutetiae Perpetrata Terrorem Fudit 17/11/2015:
- ...centum autem obsides manserunt usque ad adventum biocolytarum
- ...however, one hundred hostages remained until the police arrived
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “biocolyta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- biocolyta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.