biocolyta

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βιοκωλυτής (biokōlutḗs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bi.o.koːˈlyː.ta/, [biɔkoːˈlʲyːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bi.o.koˈli.ta/, [biokoˈliːt̪ä]

Noun

biocōlȳta m (genitive biocōlȳtae); first declension

1. (New Latin) police officer, one who protects against violence
   • 2003, Reijo Pitkäranta, De viro ministricidii suspecto [1], Nuntii Latini 19.9.2003

     Biocolytae nuntiaverunt sibi persuasum esse de eodem homine agi, qui photographematis testificatis in pantopolio eodem tempore fuisset, cum Anna Lindh cultro percuteretur.

     Police have pronounced themselves satisfied that the same person who was caught by camera surveillance in the department store at the same time as when Anna Lindh was stabbed by a knife, did the deed.

   • Ephemeris (Lydia Ariminensis), Magnae Caedes Lutetiae Perpetrata Terrorem Fudit 17/11/2015:

     ...centum autem obsides manserunt usque ad adventum biocolytarum

     ...however, one hundred hostages remained until the police arrived

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	biocōlȳta	biocōlȳtae
Genitive	biocōlȳtae	biocōlȳtārum
Dative	biocōlȳtae	biocōlȳtīs
Accusative	biocōlȳtam	biocōlȳtās
Ablative	biocōlȳtā	biocōlȳtīs
Vocative	biocōlȳta	biocōlȳtae

References

• “biocolyta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• biocolyta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.