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pretor

pretor is the alternative spelling of praetor.

Meaning of praetor

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.

Forms of pretor

pluralpretors
pluralpretores

Questions about pretor

What is pretor the alternative spelling of?
Pretor is the alternative spelling of praetor.

Words near pretor in the dictionary

  1. pretomanid
  2. pretonal
  3. pretonic
  4. pretopological
  5. pretopology
  6. pretor
  7. pretores
  8. Pretoria
  9. pretorial
  10. pretorian
  11. pretorians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretor (page history and authors); praetor (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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