praetor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
praetor (plural praetors)
- (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
- (originally) A consul in command of the army.
- (after 366 BC) An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus ("urban praetor") or the praetor peregrīnus ("peregrine praetor")), and eventually eighteen.
- (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
- (historical, translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.
- (Roman office) provost (obs.)
- praetorial
- praetorian
- → Praetorian Guard
- propraetor
- praetorium
- praetory
- praeturate
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