carnifex or carnufex ficis, m caro + 2 FAC-, an executioner, hangman: carnificum cruciamenta: iacens Inter carnifices, Iu.: suus, his destroyer: tuus, employed by you: O carnifex, scoundrel.
—A tormentor, murderer: meus, T.: civium, butcher: ad vexandam plebem creatus, L.