peculator

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English

Etymology

From Latin pecūlātor (“embezzler”), from Latin pecūlor (“I embezzle”), from Latin pecūlium (“private property”).

Noun

peculator (plural peculators)

  1. A person who peculates; an embezzler.

Anagrams

Interlingua

Noun

peculator (plural peculatores)

  1. embezzler

Latin

Etymology

From pecūlor (“I embezzle”) +‎ -tor, from pecūlium (“private property”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pecūlātor m (genitive pecūlātōris); third declension

  1. embezzler
    • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.53:
      mox compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari iussit.
      it being soon discovered that he had embezzled the public money, he directed that he should be prosecuted as a peculator.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pecūlātor pecūlātōrēs
genitive pecūlātōris pecūlātōrum
dative pecūlātōrī pecūlātōribus
accusative pecūlātōrem pecūlātōrēs
ablative pecūlātōre pecūlātōribus
vocative pecūlātor pecūlātōrēs

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: peculator

References

  • “peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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