What is the meaning of Praetor?

The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time:

  1. A consul in command of the army.
  2. An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (urban praetor) or the praetor peregrīnus (peregrine praetor)), and eventually eighteen.

A consul in command of the army.

An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (urban praetor) or the praetor peregrīnus (peregrine praetor)), and eventually eighteen.

A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. Sometimes used as a title.

The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of 17th- and 18th-century Italy.

leader, head, chief, president

praetor (office)

Source: wiktionary.org