biocolyta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βιοκωλυτής (biokōlutḗs).

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

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

First-declension noun.

• “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.