procurator

• procuratour (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English procuratour, from Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“I procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure +‎ -ator and a doublet of proctor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒkjʊˌɹeɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑkjəˌɹeɪtɚ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒkjʊˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: proc‧u‧ra‧tor

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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.

• procurator fiscal
• procurator-general

• (legal): inquisitor

• OED2

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proː.kuːˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pro.kuˈraː.t̪or]

prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātōris); third declension

1. manager, overseer, superintendent
2. procurator (office)
3. agent, deputy
4. tax collector (during the imperial eras)

Third-declension noun.

• → Catalan: procurador
• → German: Prokuratur
• → Hungarian: prokurátor (obsolete) → prókátor
• → Italian: procuratore
• → Old French: procuratour
  • → Middle English: procuratour, proctour
    • English: procurator, proctor
  • French: procurateur
• → Old Irish: procatóir
  • Irish: prócadóir
• → Polish: prokurator
• → Portuguese: procurador
• → Romanian: procurator
• → Spanish: procurador

• “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 (16 July 2016 (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

Borrowed from French procurateur, from Latin procurator.

procurator m (plural procuratori)

1. procurator