praeconium

Latin

Etymology

From praecō +‎ -ium.

Noun

praecōnium n (genitive praecōniī or praecōnī); second declension

1. the office of a public crier or auctioneer
2. a publishing or proclaiming

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praecōnium	praecōnia
Genitive	praecōniī praecōnī1	praecōniōrum
Dative	praecōniō	praecōniīs
Accusative	praecōnium	praecōnia
Ablative	praecōniō	praecōniīs
Vocative	praecōnium	praecōnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Adjective

praecōnium

1. inflection of praecōnius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “praeconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praeconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praeconium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “praeconium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “praeconium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin