praecox
English edit
Noun edit
praecox (uncountable)
- dementia praecox
- 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:
- Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
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Latin edit
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Etymology edit
From praecoquō, from prae- + coquō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.koks/, [ˈpräe̯kɔks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.koks/, [ˈprɛːkoks]
Adjective edit
praecox (genitive praecocis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- ripe before its time; premature
- precocious; untimely
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | ||
Genitive | praecocis | praecocium | |||
Dative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
Accusative | praecocem | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | |
Ablative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
Vocative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia |
Derived terms edit
- ⇒ Late Latin: (persica) praecocia (literally “early-ripe (peaches)”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “early-ripe (apple)”)
- → Ancient Greek: πραικόκιον (praikókion) (see there for further descendants)
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: precoç
- → English: precocious
- → French: précoce
- → Italian: precoce
- → Romanian: precoce
- → Sicilian: pricoci
- → Spanish: precoz
References edit
- “praecox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praecox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette