Inherited fromMiddle Englishprocuratour, fromAnglo-Normanprocuratour, fromLatinprōcūrātor, fromprōcūrō(“I procure”) (Englishprocure). Equivalent toprocure +-ator and adoublet ofproctor.
procurator (pluralprocurators)
- Ataxcollector.
- Anagent orattorney.
- A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in someinquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – seepublic procurator
- (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.
legal officer in communist country collector
Ancient Rome: governor of small province
Fromprōcūrō(“I manage, administer”) +-tor.
prōcūrātor m (genitiveprōcūrātōris);third declension
- manager,overseer,superintendent
- procurator (office)
- agent,deputy
- tax collector (during the imperial eras)
Third-declension noun.
- “procurator”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “procurator”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "procurator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “procurator”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procurator inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “procurator”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Borrowed fromFrenchprocurateur, fromLatinprocurator.
procurator m (pluralprocuratori)
- procurator
