praetor (English, noun)
expansion: praetor (plural praetors or praetores)
Senses:
topics: history
human-sciences
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glosses: The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
A consul in command of the army.
qualifier: originally
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
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.
raw_tags: after 366 BC
glosses: A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
tags: broadly
qualifier: translating Italian "pretore"
glosses: 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.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: praetors
tags: plural
form: praetores
tags: plural