English → Latin
“paymaster” in Latin
quaestorquaestorbonusgood, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant; right; usefullentussticky, tenacious; slow, sluggish; flexible, pliantexcūsōto excuse, allege in excuse, free from a charge; to cite as an excuse or pretext or justification; to exempt, dispense
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
paymaster
One who pays (general term), qui solvit. A good, dilatory, bad paymaster, bonum, lentum, malum nomen: a dilatory paymaster, who makes all sorts of excuses, lentus infitiator (Vid: commentators on Cic., Cat., 2, 10, 21).
Of the forces, tribunus aerarius (at Rome): dispensator belli or cui negotium pecuniae dispensandae datum est (in war): quaestor (the military paymaster at Rome). To choose anybody he pleased for paymaster, quem vellet, eligere ad dispensandam pecuniam (Nep., In this sense the office implies virtually the whole management of the war).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for paymaster?
- The usual Latin words for “paymaster” are quaestor, bonus, lentus; also excūsō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.