Associations to the word «Praetor»
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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
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