lictor

• lictour (obsolete, rare)

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪktə/
• Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)

lictor (plural lictors)

1. An officer in ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     ‘Beware the power of the mob, Caesar.’ Then, schooled in needful agility, he ran away before a lictor’s whip could reach him.

From ligō (“to bind”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-. A likely reference to the fascis symbol and their role as a magistrates' attaché; see also ligation and liaison.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliːk.tor/, [ˈlʲiːkt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlik.tor/, [ˈlikt̪or]

līctor m (genitive līctōris); third declension

1. lictor (officer in Ancient Rome)

Third-declension noun.

• English: lictor
• French: licteur
• Italian: littore
• Polish: liktor
• Spanish: lictor

• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lictors clear the way: lictores summovent turbam (Liv. 4. 50)
    
• “lictor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lictor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)

From Latin lictor.

lictor m (plural lictori)

1. lictor (officer in Ancient Rome)

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)

• “lictor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014