correus

== English == === Etymology === First attested in the singular in 1656 and in the plural in 1707; elliptical use from correus debendi. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏʹrĭəs, kərēʹəs; IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹɪəs/, /kəˈɹiːəs/ === Noun === correus (plural correi) Synonym of correus debendi. 1656 June 7, John Thurloe (author) and Thomas Birch (editor), “A letter of intelligence from the Hague, 7 June 1656” in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe V (London, 1742), page 71 When a creditor will accept ſolutionem particularum vel correi, the debtor or the correus muſt pay 1707 December 17, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall (editor), The Deciſions of the Lords of Council and Seſſion, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712 II (Edinburgh, 1761), page 404 Since this act, few take bonds with cautioners, but bind them all as correi and principals. === Anagrams === courser, scourer, sourcer == Catalan == === Noun === correus plural of correu == Latin == === Etymology === From cor- (“joint”) + reus (“accused”, “defendant”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔr.re.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔr.re.us] === Noun === correus m (genitive correī); second declension a partaker in guilt, a joint criminal, a partner in crime, an accomplice ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: correal, correus debendi === References === “correus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "correus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “correus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “correus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “correus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray “correus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin