procurator
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English
Alternative forms
- procuratour (obsolete)
Etymology
Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“I procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure + -ator.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑkjəˌɹeɪtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒkjʊˌɹeɪtə/
- Hyphenation: proc‧u‧ra‧tor
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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
tax collector
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agent or attorney
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legal officer in communist country collector
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Ancient Rome: governor of small province
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See also
- (legal): inquisitor
References
- OED2
Latin
Etymology
From prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proː.kuːˈraː.tor/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro.kuˈra.tor/,
Noun
prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātōris); third declension
- manager, overseer, superintendent
- procurator (office)
- agent, deputy
- tax collector (during the imperial eras)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
| Genitive | prōcūrātōris | prōcūrātōrum |
| Dative | prōcūrātōrī | prōcūrātōribus |
| Accusative | prōcūrātōrem | prōcūrātōrēs |
| Ablative | prōcūrātōre | prōcūrātōribus |
| Vocative | prōcūrātor | prōcūrātōrēs |
Descendants
- → Catalan: procurador
- → German: Prokuratur
- → Italian: procuratore
- → Old French: procuratour
- → Middle English: procuratour, proctour
- English: procurator, proctor
- French: procurateur
- → Middle English: procuratour, proctour
- → Old Irish: procatóir
- Irish: prócadóir
- → Polish: prokurator
- → Portuguese: procurador
- → Spanish: procurador
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “procurator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procurator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French procurateur, from Latin procurator.
Noun
procurator m (plural procuratori)
Declension
Declension of procurator
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) procurator | procuratorul | (niște) procuratori | procuratorii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) procurator | procuratorului | (unor) procuratori | procuratorilor |
| vocative | procuratorule | procuratorilor | ||