different between abactor vs abigeat

English

Alternative forms

• abacter

Etymology

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abig? (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?bæk.t?/, /æ?bæk.t?/

Noun

abactor (plural abactors)

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. [Attested from the mid 17^th century until the early 19^th century.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

Hyponyms

• horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (obsolete)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• CATOBAR, acrobat

Latin

Etymology

From abig? (“drive away”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ba?k.tor/, [ä?bä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?bak.tor/, [??b?kt??r]

Noun

ab?ctor m (genitive ab?ct?ris); third declension

1. A cattle thief; abactor or rustler.
2. A man who abducts.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cattle thief): abige?tor, abigeus

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: abactor
• ? Portuguese: abactor

References

• abactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin abactor.

Pronunciation

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?kt?o?/
• Hyphenation: a?bac?tor

Noun

abactor m (plural abactores, feminine abactora, feminine plural abactoras)

1. abactor (cattle thief)

   Synonym: abígeo

Related terms

• abacto

English

Etymology

From Latin abigeatus, from the verb ab ag? (“to drive”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?d?i.?t/

Noun

abigeat (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
   • 1676 [published 1848], John Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, T. Constable, vol 1., page 101:

     But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 pre?ent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppre??ive act, and a ?ort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]

Synonyms

• (theft of cattle): cattle-rustling

Translations

See also

• abactor
• rustle

French

Noun

abigeat m (plural abigeats)

1. (law, archaic) Alternative form of abigéat

Further reading

• “abigeat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tabagie