praeiudicium

Latin

Alternative forms

• praejūdicium
• præiūdicium
• præjūdicium

Etymology

prae- +‎ iūdicium; compare also praeiūdicō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯.i̯uːˈdi.ki.um/, [präe̯i̯uːˈd̪ɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.juˈdi.t͡ʃi.um/, [prejuˈd̪iːt͡ʃium]

Noun

praeiūdicium n (genitive praeiūdiciī or praeiūdicī); second declension

1. precedent, example
2. prejudgment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praeiūdicium	praeiūdicia
Genitive	praeiūdiciī praeiūdicī1	praeiūdiciōrum
Dative	praeiūdiciō	praeiūdiciīs
Accusative	praeiūdicium	praeiūdicia
Ablative	praeiūdiciō	praeiūdiciīs
Vocative	praeiūdicium	praeiūdicia

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

Related terms

• iūdicium
• praeiūdicō

Descendants

• Catalan: prejudici, perjudici
• English: prejudice
• French: préjudice
• Galician: prexuízo
• Italian: pregiudizio
• Portuguese: prejuízo
• Romanian: prejudiciu
• Spanish: perjuicio, prejuicio

References

• “praeiudicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praeiudicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • prejudice: opinio praeiudicata, also simply opinio (not praeiudicium = a preliminary decision)
    
• “praeiudicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers