Etymograph

English

procureur

Procureur comes from French procureur ‘representative, agent’, from procurer ‘to get, obtain (for someone)’, and ultimately from Latin cūrō ‘to care for’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcūrō1‘to care for’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōcūrāre1‘to manage, administer’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400procurer1‘to procure’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocurer2‘to get, obtain (for someone)’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocureur3‘representative, agent’
  6. Englishtodayprocureur3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, French procurer
  2. 2 Wiktionary, French procureur
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English procureur

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcūrōWiktionary, French procurer‘to care for’
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEprōcūrāreWiktionary, French procurer‘to manage, administer’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400procurerWiktionary, French procurer‘to procure’
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocurerWiktionary, French procureur‘to get, obtain (for someone)’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentprocureurWiktionary, English procureur‘representative, agent’
  6. EnglishtodayprocureurWiktionary, English procureur

Linked words

through Latin cūrō ‘to care for’

accurate, cure, proxy, incurable, curation, 5 more

Today it means

noun A procurator.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “procureur”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for French procurer, French procureur. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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