prologue

See also: prologué

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Alternative formsEdit

prolog

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊlɒɡ/
Audio (RP) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊlɔɡ/, /ˈpɹoʊlɑɡ/

NounEdit

prologue (plural prologues)

A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
Synonyms: forespeech; see also Thesaurus:foreword

Antonyms: epilogue; see also Thesaurus:afterword
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery‎^[1]:
  “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
One who delivers a prologue.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, “the prologue”:
  And hither am I come, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;
(computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
(cycling) An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.

Derived termsEdit

prologuize

TranslationsEdit

speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel

Bulgarian: пролог (bg) m (prolog)
Catalan: pròleg m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 序幕 (zh) (xùmù)
Czech: prolog m
Dutch: proloog (nl)
Finnish: prologi (fi)
French: prologue (fr) m
German: Prolog (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: πρόλογος m (prólogos)
Hebrew: פרולוג‎ (he) m
Hungarian: prológus (hu), bevezető (hu), előszó (hu)
Japanese: プロローグ (ja) (purorōgu), 序幕 (ja) (じょまく, jomaku)

Latin: praefātiō f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: prolog m
Portuguese: prólogo (pt) m
Russian: проло́г (ru) m (prológ), предисло́вие (ru) n (predislóvije)
Scottish Gaelic: ro-ràdh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре̏дгово̄р, про̀лог,

Roman: prȅdgovōr (sh) m, pròlog (sh)
Spanish: prólogo (es) m
Swedish: prolog (sv) c
Telugu: పూర్వరంగము (te) (pūrvaraṅgamu)
Yiddish: פּראָלאָג‎ m (prolog)

VerbEdit

prologue (third-person singular simple present prologues, present participle prologuing, simple past and past participle prologued)