Peculator
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < < .
Noun
- A person who peculates; an embezzler
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Etymology
Agent noun formed from pecūlātus, perfect passive participle of < + -or, agential ending.
Noun
- embezzler
- 56 - 117 CE — Tacitus, Historiae 1:53
- mox compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari iussit.
- it being soon discovered that he had embezzled the public money, he directed that he should be prosecuted as a peculator.
- mox compertum publicam pecuniam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari iussit.
- 56 - 117 CE — Tacitus, Historiae 1:53