propraetor

• proprætor

From the Latin prōpraetor.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: prōprēʹtôr, IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈpɹiːtɔː/

propraetor (plural propraetors)

1. A magistrate of ancient Rome who governed a province after serving as a praetor in Rome.

• propraetorship

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈprae̯.tor/, [proːˈprae̯.tɔr]

prōpraetor m (genitive prōpraetōris); third declension

1. An ex-praetor (in Rome) sent as praetor to a province where there was no army

Third declension.

• propraetor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• propraetor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• propraetor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• propraetor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• propraetor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin