procurourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman procurour, Old French procureor, from Latin prōcūrātor. By surface analysis, procuren +‎ -our and doublet of procuratour; first attested in c. 1325.

発音

• IPA: /ˌprɔkiu̯ˈruːr/, /ˈprɔkiu̯rur/
• IPA: /prɔˈkiu̯ruːr/ (by analogy with procuren)

名詞

procurour (plural procurours)

1. An agent or representative; someone who acts for or represents:
   1. (rare) A manager or steward of a household.
   2. (Early Scots, rare) An attorney; a legal representative.
   3. (Roman Empire, rare) A procurator (Roman official)
2. An instigator or inducer; someone who incites.

派生した語

• English: procurer
• Middle Scots: procurar, procurour

参照

• “prōcūrǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “procurer, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “procurour(e, Procurar, -er(, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.