procurator

• procuratour (obsolete)

Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“I procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure +‎ -ator.

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

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.

• curator
• procuracy
• procuratorate
• procure
• proctor

• (legal): inquisitor

• OED2

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proː.kuːˈraː.tor/, [proː.kuːˈraː.tɔr]

prōcūrātor m (genitive prōcūrātoris); third declension

1. manager, overseer, superintendent
2. agent, deputy

Third declension.

• English: procurator, proctor
• Polish: prokurator

• 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, 1883–1887)
• procurator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procurator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, 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