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Word of the Day – Peculate

By March 3, 2024Word of the Day

Peculate (verb)

pek-yu-layt

to steal or take dishonestly (money, especially public funds, or property entrusted to one’s care); embezzle.

First recorded in 1740–50; verb use of peculate “embezzlement” (now obsolete), from Latin past participle and noun pecūlātus “embezzled; embezzlement,” equivalent to pecūlā(rī) ) “to embezzle,” literally, “to make public property private” + -tus suffix of verbal action, derivative of pecu “wealth, livestock, movable property”

Example sentences

“No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it.”

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