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Latin
Etymology
From pecūlor + -tus.
Pronunciation
Noun
pecūlātus m (genitive pecūlātūs); fourth declension
- embezzlement of public money or property, peculation
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
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
- peculatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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