praedium

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from praes (“surety, bondsman”) +‎ -ium. Others refer it to praehendō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.di.um/, [ˈpräe̯d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.di.um/, [ˈprɛːd̪ium]

Noun

praedium n (genitive praediī or praedī); second declension

1. farm
2. estate
3. manor

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praedium	praedia
Genitive	praediī praedī1	praediōrum
Dative	praediō	praediīs
Accusative	praedium	praedia
Ablative	praediō	praediīs
Vocative	praedium	praedia

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

Derived terms

• praediālis
• praediātōrius
• praediātūra
• praediātus
• praediolum

 

Descendants

• Catalan: predi
• Galician: predio
• Italian: predio
• Portuguese: prédio, predio (obsolete)
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: prediu
  • Kabuverdianu: prédiu
• Spanish: predio

References

• “praedium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praedium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praedium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• praedium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “praedium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “praedium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin