different between accomplice vs probator

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1580s. From Middle English accomplice, from a complice, from Old French complice (“confederate”), from Latin complicare (“fold together”). The article a became part of the word, through the influence of the word accomplish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?.?k?m.pl?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?k?m.pl?s/, /?.?k?m.pl?s/
• Hyphenation: ac?com?plice

Noun

accomplice (plural accomplices)

1. (law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.
   • 1749, Samuel Johnson, Irene

     And thou, the curst accomplice of her treason, Declare thy message, and expect thy doom

   • suspected for accomplice to the fire

2. (rare) A cooperator.

Usage notes

• Followed by with or of before a person and by in or to (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, "A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C"; or, "D was an accomplice to murder".

Synonyms

• abettor, accessory, assistant, associate, confederate, coadjutor, ally, promoter; see abettor.

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

probator (plural probators)

1. An examiner; an approver.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Maydman to this entry?)

2. (law, Britain, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.

Anagrams

• pro-abort, proabort

Latin

Etymology 1

From prob?.

Noun

prob?tor m (genitive prob?t?ris); third declension

1. approver
2. examiner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• prob?t?ria

Etymology 2

Verb

prob?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of prob?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of prob?

References

• probator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• probator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette