"lictor" meaning in Latin

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  "etymology_text": "Possibly from the same root as ligō, ligāre, ligāvī, ligātus (“to bind”). In this case, the reference might be to the fascis symbol and their role as a magistrates' attaché; see also ligation and liaison. The long vowel would be the result of Lachmann's law, as in āctor from agō. Aulus Gellius writes that Valgius Rufus derived līctor from ligandō, whereas Tiro Tullius, a freedman of Cicero, derived it from līcium. The same root has been dubiously connected to religiō. On the basis of the Albanian lidh (“to bind, tie”), the root is reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-, although the lack of other certain cognates makes it uncertain.",
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      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
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      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈlikt̪or]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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      "form": "līctor",
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
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