biocolyta
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βιοκωλυτής (biokōlutḗs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bi.o.koːˈlyː.ta/, [bi.ɔ.koːˈlyː.ta]
Noun
biocōlȳta m (genitive biocōlȳtae); first declension
- (New Latin) police officer, one who protects against violence
- 2003, Reijo Pitkäranta, De viro ministricidii suspecto , Nuntii Latini 19.9.2003
- Biocolytae nuntiaverunt sibi persuasum esse de eodem homine agi, qui photographematis testificatis in pantopolio eodem tempore fuisset, cum Anna Lindh cultro percuteretur.
- Police have pronounced themselves satisfied that the same person who was caught by camera surveillance in the department store at the same time as when Anna Lindh was stabbed by a knife, did the deed.
- Biocolytae nuntiaverunt sibi persuasum esse de eodem homine agi, qui photographematis testificatis in pantopolio eodem tempore fuisset, cum Anna Lindh cultro percuteretur.
- Ephemeris (Lydia Ariminensis), Magnae Caedes Lutetiae Perpetrata Terrorem Fudit 17/11/2015:
- ...centum autem obsides manserunt usque ad adventum biocolytarum
- ...however, one hundred hostages remained until the police arrived
- ...centum autem obsides manserunt usque ad adventum biocolytarum
- 2003, Reijo Pitkäranta, De viro ministricidii suspecto , Nuntii Latini 19.9.2003
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | biocōlȳta | biocōlȳtae |
Genitive | biocōlȳtae | biocōlȳtārum |
Dative | biocōlȳtae | biocōlȳtīs |
Accusative | biocōlȳtam | biocōlȳtās |
Ablative | biocōlȳtā | biocōlȳtīs |
Vocative | biocōlȳta | biocōlȳtae |
References
- biocolyta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- biocolyta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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