peculatus

From pecūlor +‎ -tus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛ.kuːˈɫaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pe.kuˈlaː.t̪us]

pecūlātus m (genitive pecūlātūs); fourth declension

1. embezzlement of public money or property, peculation

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: peculato
• Sicilian: piculatu
• Spanish: peculado

• “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^[1], 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