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Latin
Etymology
From lēx (“law”) + -uleius.
Pronunciation
Noun
lēguleius m (genitive lēguleiī or lēguleī); second declension
- (often derogatory) a procedural lawyer, one expert in formal technicalities
- Synonym: fōrmulārius
55 BCE,
Cicero,
De Oratore 1.236.7:
- Ita est tibi iūris cōnsultus ipse per sē nihil nisi lēguleius quīdam cautus et acūtus, praecō āctiōnum, cantor fōrmulārum, auceps syllabārum
- And as a result, a lawyer in and of himself ends up being merely some kind of diligent and shrewd legal tradesman, a crier of legal actions, a singer of legal formulas, a trapper of syllables.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “lēgulēius” on page 1116 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “leguleius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “leguleius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- leguleius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.