Associations to the word «Praetor»

Wiktionary

PRAETOR, noun. (Roman history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
PRAETOR, noun. (originally) A consul in command of the army.
PRAETOR, noun. (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 or the praetor peregrīnus), and eventually eighteen.
PRAETOR, noun. (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
PRAETOR, noun. (in Italian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century history) (translating the Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of Italy.

Dictionary definition

PRAETOR, noun. An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats