praetor

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A consul in command of the army.
2. isim An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
3. isim A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
4. isim The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.