president Copy link Outline I. Person presidingII. Governor1. praeses, ĭdis2. praefectus • president: I. Person presiding: praefectus, with gen. or dat.: v. superintendent. Often better expr. by praesideo, praesum: v. to preside. II. Governor: 1. praeses, ĭdis: Suet. Aug. 23 (gen. term, including all provincial governors): Dig. 2. praefectus: v. governor.
PRESIDENT Copy link • PRESIDENTpraefectus (one who presides over an office or business; ☞ in the best prose always with a genitive or dative of the office, etc.): magister (one who is intrusted with the oversight or care of an institution, or the like): praeses (one who presides, as the head): antistes (the head of a temple, and of sacred offices belonging to it: ☞ rarely, and only in the Silver Age, in the more general sense of “a president “). To make one president of anything, aliquem alicui rei praeficere or praeponere.