Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛksCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛks#PREXCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛks/1 syllable#PREX

Etymology 1

From US college slang; from 1828.^[1]

Etymology 2

References

Anagrams

• XPer

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛks]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PREXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PREX
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛks]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PREXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PREX

Noun

prex f (genitive precis)Category:Latin lemmas#PREXCategory:Latin nouns#PREXCategory:Latin third declension nouns#PREXCategory:Latin feminine nouns in the third declension#PREXCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PREXCategory:Latin feminine nouns#PREXCategory:Pages with entries#PREXCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PREX; third declension

1. prayer; request

   Synonyms: vōtum, rogātiō, precātiō, petītiō, postulātum

2. entreaty

   Synonyms: rogātiō, supplicium

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:

     post concedente et precibus ipsorum et misericordia vulgi

     then retired, both by entreaties of themselves or by compassion of the crowd

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#PREX

References

• “prex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "prex", 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)
• “prex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to importune with petitions: precibus aliquem fatigare
    
  • to grant a request: precibus obsequi
    
  • to be influenced by, to yield to urgent (abject) entreaty: magnis (infimis) precibus moveri
    
  • to refuse, reject a request: repudiare, aspernari preces alicuius
    
  • to pray to God: adhibere deo preces
    
  • to pray: preces facere
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook