praefectura

Latin

Etymology

praefectus +‎ -tūra

Noun

praefectūra f (genitive praefectūrae); first declension

1. presidency, superintendence, prefecture

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praefectūra	praefectūrae
Genitive	praefectūrae	praefectūrārum
Dative	praefectūrae	praefectūrīs
Accusative	praefectūram	praefectūrās
Ablative	praefectūrā	praefectūrīs
Vocative	praefectūra	praefectūrae

Related terms

• praeficio

Descendants

• Albanian: prefekturë
• Catalan: prefectura
• French: préfecture
  • English: prefecture
  • Norwegian: prefektur
• Italian: prefettura
• Romanian: prefectură
• Russian: префектура (prefektura)
• Spanish: prefectura

References

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