procurator

English

Alternative forms

• procuratour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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
• procuratorial
• procuratorship
• procuratress

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 (pălnonoštnik)
• Finnish: prokuristi (fi), edustaja (fi), asiamies (fi)
• Macedonian: аге́нт m (agént), полно́мошник m (polnómošnik)
• Middle English: procuratour

legal officer in communist country collector

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

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

• Finnish: prokuraattori (fi)
• Greek: πληρεξούσιος (el) (plirexoúsios)

Ancient Rome: governor of small province

• Bulgarian: прокуратор (prokurator)
• Finnish: prokuraattori (fi)
• Greek: πληρεξούσιος (el) (plirexoúsios)

See also

• (legal): inquisitor

References

• OED2

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-der.

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin cūrō

Latin prōcūrō

Latin tor

Latin prōcūrātor

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

Pronunciation

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

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōcūrātor	prōcūrātōrēs
genitive	prōcūrātōris	prōcūrātōrum
dative	prōcūrātōrī	prōcūrātōribus
accusative	prōcūrātōrem	prōcūrātōrēs
ablative	prōcūrātōre	prōcūrātōribus
vocative	prōcūrātor	prōcūrātōrēs

Descendants

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

Middle English

Noun

procurator

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of procuratour

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French procurateur, from Latin procurator.

Noun

procurator m (plural procuratori)

1. procurator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	procurator	procuratorul	procuratori	procuratorii
genitive-dative	procurator	procuratorului	procuratori	procuratorilor
vocative	procuratorule		procuratorilor