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Definitions and meaning of lictor

lictor

Alternative forms

• lictour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪktə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪktɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)

Noun

lictor (plural lictors)

1. An officer in ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [likˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [likˈtoɾ]

Noun

lictor m (plural lictors)

1. lictor (an official in Ancient Rome)

Further reading

• “lictor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lictor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lictor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “lictor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from the same root as ligō, ligāre, ligāvī, ligātus (“to bind”). In this case, the reference might be to the fascis symbol and their role as a magistrates' attaché; see also ligation and liaison. The long vowel would be the result of Lachmann's law, as in āctor from agō. Aulus Gellius writes that Valgius Rufus derived līctor from ligandō, whereas Tiro Tullius, a freedman of Cicero, derived it from līcium. The same root has been dubiously connected to religiō. On the basis of the Albanian lidh (“to bind, tie”), the root is reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-, although the lack of other certain cognates makes it uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliːk.tor/, [ˈlʲiːkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlik.tor/, [ˈlikt̪or]
• Gellius states that the vowel in the first syllable is long.

Noun

līctor m (genitive līctōris, feminine līctrīx); third declension

1. lictor (an officer in Ancient Rome)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: lictor
• French: licteur
• Italian: littore
• Polish: liktor
• Spanish: lictor

References

Further reading

• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “lictor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lictor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -oʁ, (Portugal) -oɾ
• Hyphenation: lic‧tor

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. (history) lictor (An official, carrying a hatchet wrapped in a bundle of sticks, who preceded the consuls or the dictator, in ancient Rome.)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Noun

lictor m (plural lictori)

1. lictor (an officer in Ancient Rome)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (an official in Ancient Rome)

Further reading

• “lictor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014