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praetor

UK/ˈpɹiːtɔː//ˈpɹiːtɚ/

praetor noun: a consul in command of the army.

Noun

praetor (plural praetors or praetores)

  1. (originally) A consul in command of the army.
  2. 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.
  3. (broadly) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
  4. (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.

praetor meaning in Tamil and Marathi

praetor in Tamil

தண்டலர்

praetor in Marathi

Roman administrative official
प्राएतोर prāetor
historical Italian title
प्राएतोर prāetor

Synonyms of praetor

Forms of praetor

pluralpraetors
pluralpraetores

Origin of praetor

From Middle English pretour, pretor, from the Anglo-Norman pretour, pretore, the Middle French preteur (from the Old French pretor; compare the Modern French préteur), and their etymon, the Classical Latin praetor (“leader”, “commander”, “magistrate”); the Latin praetor being contracted from *praeitor (“one who goes before”), from praeeō (“to go before”), from prae (“before”) + eō (“to go”); compare the Italian pretore, the Portuguese pretor, and the Spanish pretor.

Words formed from praetor

  • lieutenant-praetor
  • peregrine praetor
  • praetoral
  • praetorical
  • praetorship
  • urban praetor

Questions about praetor

What does praetor mean?
Praetor means a consul in command of the army.
What is praetor in Tamil?
Praetor in Tamil is தண்டலர். See Praetor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is praetor?
Praetor is a noun.
How do you pronounce praetor?
Praetor is pronounced /ˈpɹiːtɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of praetor?
The plural of praetor is praetors.

Words near praetor in the dictionary

  1. praetermitted
  2. praetermitting
  3. praeternatural
  4. praeternature
  5. praetexta
  6. praetor
  7. praetores
  8. praetoria
  9. praetorial
  10. praetorian
  11. praetorianism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praetor (page history and authors); praetor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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