publicanus

From pūblicus +‎ -ānus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [puː.blɪˈkaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pu.bliˈkaː.nus]

pūblicānus (feminine pūblicāna, neuter pūblicānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) public revenue

First/second-declension adjective.

pūblicānus m (genitive pūblicānī); second declension

1. tax collector
2. publican
3. (Medieval Latin, by conflation) Paulician

   Synonym: Pauliciānus

Second-declension noun.

• “publicanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “publicanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "publicanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “publicanus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.