The corpus record — Latin

peculator

peculator · m

an embezzler of public money

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Where it lives

De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

pĕcūlātor — Lewis & Short

pĕcūlātor, ōris, m.peculor,

I an embezzler of public money, a peculator, Cic. Off. 3, 18, 73; Tac. H. 1, 53; Val. Max. 5, 3, 2; Salv. Gub. Dei, 7, 21.

In the wild

peculatoribus Cicero, De Officiis 3.73.p1
peculator Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.3.2a
peculatorem Tacitus, Historiae 1.54

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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