praetor
See also: prætor
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Etymology edit
From Middle English pretour, pretor, from the Anglo-Norman pretour, pretore, the Middle French preteur (from the Old French pretor; compare the Modern French préteur), and their etymon, the Classical Latin praetor (“leader”, “commander”, “magistrate”); the Latin praetor being contracted from *praeitor (“one who goes before”), from praeeō (“I go before”), from prae (“before”) + eō (“I go”); compare the Italian pretore, the Portuguese pretor, and the Spanish pretor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: prēʹtôr, IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːtɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹiːtɚ/, /ˈpɹeɪːtɚ/
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Noun edit
praetor (plural praetors or praetores)
- (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
- (originally) A consul in command of the army.
- (after 366 BC) An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
- (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
- (historical, translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.
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- (Roman office): provost (obs.)
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Roman administrative official
high civic or administrative official
historical Italian title
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
For *praeitor, from Proto-Italic *praiitōr. Equal to praeeō + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.tor/, [ˈpräe̯t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.tor/, [ˈprɛːt̪or]
Noun edit
praetor m (genitive praetōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | praetor | praetōrēs |
Genitive | praetōris | praetōrum |
Dative | praetōrī | praetōribus |
Accusative | praetōrem | praetōrēs |
Ablative | praetōre | praetōribus |
Vocative | praetor | praetōrēs |
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- “praetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praetor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praetor 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)
- praetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
- to accuse, denounce a person: nomen alicuius deferre (apud praetorem) (Verr. 2. 38. 94)
- to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
- “praetor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praetor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “praetor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin