peculator

From Latin pecūlātor (“embezzler”), from Latin pecūlor (“I embezzle”), from Latin pecūlium (“private property”).

peculator (plural peculators)

1. A person who peculates; an embezzler

• peculation
• peculate

• copulater, outparcel, outplacer, parcel out

peculator (plural peculatores)

1. embezzler

• peculato

Agent noun formed from pecūlātus, perfect passive participle of pecūlor (“I embezzle”), from pecūlium (“private property”) + -or, agential ending.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe.kuːˈlaː.tor/, [pɛkuːˈɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.kuˈla.tor/, [pekuˈläːt̪or]

pecūlātor m (genitive pecūlātōris); third declension

1. embezzler
   • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.53:

     mox compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari iussit.

     it being soon discovered that he had embezzled the public money, he directed that he should be prosecuted as a peculator.

Third-declension noun.

• interceptor

• pecūlāns
• pecūlātus
• pecūlor

• English: peculator

• “peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peculator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• peculator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette