praepositus
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin praepositus.
Noun
editpraepositus (plural praeposituses or praepositi)
- (historical, archaic) Alternative form of prepositus.
Latin
editEtymology
editPerfect passive participle of praepōnō, equivalent to prae- (“fore-”) + positus (“placed”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /prae̯ˈpo.si.tus/, [präe̯ˈpɔs̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /preˈpo.si.tus/, [preˈpɔːs̬it̪us]
Participle
editpraepositus (feminine praeposita, neuter praepositum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | praepositus | praeposita | praepositum | praepositī | praepositae | praeposita | |
Genitive | praepositī | praepositae | praepositī | praepositōrum | praepositārum | praepositōrum | |
Dative | praepositō | praepositō | praepositīs | ||||
Accusative | praepositum | praepositam | praepositum | praepositōs | praepositās | praeposita | |
Ablative | praepositō | praepositā | praepositō | praepositīs | |||
Vocative | praeposite | praeposita | praepositum | praepositī | praepositae | praeposita |
Noun
editpraepositus m (genitive praepositī); second declension
- One placed in command: a commander, a leader, particularly:
- A prefect.
- A chief, a head.
- An overseer.
- A president.
- (Medieval Latin) A provost.
- (Medieval Latin) A reeve.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | praepositus | praepositī |
Genitive | praepositī | praepositōrum |
Dative | praepositō | praepositīs |
Accusative | praepositum | praepositōs |
Ablative | praepositō | praepositīs |
Vocative | praeposite | praepositī |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Byzantine Greek: πραιπόσιτος (praipósitos)
- Catalan: prebost
- → English: prepositus
- Old Francoprovençal: proost
- Franco-Provençal: prouôt
- Old French: provost
- Italian: preposito, preposto, proposto
- → Portuguese: prepósito
- → Spanish: prepósito
References
edit- “praepositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praepositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praepositus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “praepositus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “praepositus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with historical senses
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- Latin 4-syllable words
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- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
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- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Medieval Latin
- Latin terms prefixed with prae-