Definitions from Wiktionary (praetor)

▸ noun:  (history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:
▸ noun:  (originally) A consul in command of the army.
▸ noun:  (after 366 BC) An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.
▸ noun:  (historical, translating Italian "pretore") The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.




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