lictor

Alternative forms

• lictour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līctor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪktə/

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.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     ‘Beware the power of the mob, Caesar.’ Then, schooled in needful agility, he ran away before a lictor’s whip could reach him.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

līctor m (genitive līctōris); third declension

1. lictor (officer in Ancient Rome)

References

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lictors clear the way: lictores summovent turbam (Liv. 4. 50)
    
• 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

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)

Noun

lictor m (plural lictores)

1. lictor (official in Ancient Rome)