Noun

prae m or n (plural praes, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#PRAECategory:Dutch nouns#PRAECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#PRAECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PRAECategory:Dutch masculine nouns#PRAECategory:Dutch neuter nouns#PRAECategory:Dutch nouns with multiple genders#PRAECategory:Pages with entries#PRAECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRAE

1. superseded spelling of preCategory:Dutch superseded forms#PRAE

Alternative forms

• prē (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#PRAECategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#PRAE *prai, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#PRAECategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PRAE *préh₂i. Cognate with Old Latin *pri (“before”), as in prior, prīdiē, etc. Other Italic cognates include Oscan 𐌐𐌓𐌀𐌉 (prai) and Umbrian 𐌐𐌓𐌄 (pre).

The ablative is from the PIE locative.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprae̯]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PRAECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAE
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛː]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PRAECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAE

Adverb

prae (comparative prius, superlative prīmō)Category:Latin lemmas#PRAECategory:Latin adverbs#PRAECategory:Latin irregular adverbs#PRAECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PRAECategory:Pages with entries#PRAECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRAE

1. before
2. in front

Preposition

praeCategory:Latin lemmas#PRAECategory:Latin prepositions#PRAECategory:Latin ablative prepositions#PRAECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PRAECategory:Pages with entries#PRAECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRAE (+ ablative)

1. before
2. in front of
3. in comparison with
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.6:

     prae ea urbe

     in comparison with that city

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#PRAE
4. because of

References

• “prae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "prae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “prae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • to pass as a man of great learning: magnam doctrinae speciem prae se ferre
    
  • to give the impression of...; have the outward aspect of..: speciem prae se ferre
    
  • to drive the enemy before one: prae se agere hostem
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• Buck, Carl (1904), A grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, Ginn & Co, page 78
• ONLINE LATIN DICTIONARY OLIVETTI

Anagrams

• aper, pēra