peculatus

== Latin == === Etymology === From pecūlor + -tus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛ.kuːˈɫaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pe.kuˈlaː.tus] === Noun === pecūlātus m (genitive pecūlātūs); fourth declension embezzlement of public money or property, peculation ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “peculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “peculatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “peculatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “peculatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “peculatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin