praetorium

See also: prætorium

English

Noun

praetorium (plural praetoria)

1. Alternative form of pretorium

Latin

Etymology

From praetor +‎ -ium.

Noun

praetōrium n (genitive praetōriī or praetōrī); second declension

1. headquarters; general's tent
2. council of war
3. governor's palace
4. villa

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	praetōrium	praetōria
Genitive	praetōriī praetōrī1	praetōriōrum
Dative	praetōriō	praetōriīs
Accusative	praetōrium	praetōria
Ablative	praetōriō	praetōriīs
Vocative	praetōrium	praetōria

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

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: πραιτώριον (praitṓrion)

References

• “praetorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praetorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praetorium 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)
• praetorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
  • the admiral's ship; the flagship: navis praetoria (Liv. 21. 49)
    
• “praetorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “praetorium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “praetorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “praetorium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press