different between indict vs probator

English

Etymology

From Middle English enditen, endyten, from Old French enditer, from Late Latin indict?re, from Latin in- + dict?re. Doublet of indite.

The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dict?re (but see dight). The borrowed /i?/ regularly shifted to /a?/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the "c" represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?da?t/
• Homophone: indite

Verb

indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)

1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

2. (law) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

Derived terms

• indictable
• indictment

Translations

See also

• indite

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