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Latin
Etymology
From ante (“before”) + loquor (“say, speak”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
anteloquium n (genitive anteloquiī or anteloquī); second declension
- The right of speaking before another.
- An introduction, preface, prologue, proem.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “anteloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anteloquium 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)
- anteloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- anteloquium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016