procurator

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)

1. A tax collector.
2. An agent or attorney.
3. A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
4. (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.

Derived terms

• procurator fiscal
• procurator-general

Related terms

• curator
• proctor
• procuracy
• procuratorate
• procure

 

Translations

tax collector

• Bulgarian: бирник (bg) m (birnik)
• Finnish: veronkantaja
• Macedonian: да́ночник m (dánočnik)

agent or attorney

• Bulgarian: агент (bg) m (agent), пълнонощник m (pǎlnonoštnik)
• Finnish: prokuristi (fi), edustaja (fi), asiamies (fi)
• Macedonian: аге́нт m (agént), полно́мошник m (polnómošnik)

legal officer in communist country collector

• Bulgarian: следовател (bg) (sledovatel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檢察官／检察官 (zh) (jiǎncháguān)

• Finnish: prokuraattori (fi)

Ancient Rome: governor of small province

• Bulgarian: прокуратор (prokurator)
• Finnish: prokuraattori (fi)

See also

• (legal): inquisitor

References

• OED2

Latin

Etymology

From prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proː.kuːˈraː.tor/, [proːkuːˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.kuˈra.tor/, [prokuˈräːt̪or]

Noun

prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātōris); third declension

1. manager, overseer, superintendent
2. procurator (office)
3. agent, deputy
4. 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
• → 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^[1], 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)

1. procurator

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