different between procure vs procurator

English

Etymology

From Old French procurer, from Late Latin pr?c?r?re, present active infinitive of Latin pr?c?r? (“I manage, administer”), from pr? (“on behalf of”) + c?r? (“I care for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???kj??/, /p???kj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???kj??/, /p???kj?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

procure (third-person singular simple present procures, present participle procuring, simple past and past participle procured)

1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
   • Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.

2. (transitive) To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
3. (transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
4. (obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Thomas More, Utopia

     By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

5. (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
6. (obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

Synonyms

• (acquire): obtain
• (obtain a prostitute): buy, purchase

Related terms

• procurement
• procurer
• procuress
• proxy

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “procure”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• crouper

French

Verb

procure

1. first-person singular present indicative of procurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of procurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
5. second-person singular imperative of procurer

Italian

Noun

procure f

1. plural of procura

Portuguese

Verb

procure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
3. first-person singular imperative of procurar
4. third-person singular imperative of procurar

Spanish

Verb

procure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of procurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of procurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of procurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of procurar.

English

Alternative forms

• procuratour (obsolete)

Etymology

Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin pr?c?r?tor, from pr?c?r? (“I procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure +? -ator.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??kj???e?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??kj???e?t?/
• Hyphenation: proc?u?ra?tor

Noun

procurator (plural procurators)

1. A tax collector.
2. An agent or attorney.
3. A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
4. (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (legal): inquisitor

References

• OED2

Latin

Etymology

From pr?c?r? (“I manage, administer”) +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro?.ku??ra?.tor/, [p?o?ku???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.ku?ra.tor/, [p??ku????t??r]

Noun

pr?c?r?tor m (genitive pr?c?r?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, overseer, superintendent
2. procurator (office)
3. agent, deputy
4. tax collector (during the imperial eras)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: procurador
• ? German: Prokuratur
• ? Italian: procuratore
• ? Old French: procuratour
  • ? Middle English: procuratour, proctour
    • English: procurator, proctor
  • French: procurateur
• ? Old Irish: procatóir
  • Irish: prócadóir
• ? Polish: prokurator
• ? Portuguese: procurador
• ? Spanish: procurador

References

• procurator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• procurator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procurator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• procurator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procurator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• procurator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French procurateur, from Latin procurator.

Noun

procurator m (plural procuratori)

1. procurator

Declension