praeco

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Latin

Etymology

Per De Vaan, by syncope from *praedicō, *praedicōn-, with the same prefix and root as the verb praedicō (“proclaim, declare publicly”) from prae- +‎ dicō (“dedicate, assign to”) combined with the agent noun suffix -ō, -ōn-. An alternative proposal derives it by syncope from *praevocō, *praevocōn-, from prae- and the root of the verb vocō (“call, invoke”).

Noun

praecō m (genitive praecōnis); third declension

  1. herald, crier
    Synonyms: nūntius, internūntia
  2. auctioneer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative praecō praecōnēs
Genitive praecōnis praecōnum
Dative praecōnī praecōnibus
Accusative praecōnem praecōnēs
Ablative praecōne praecōnibus
Vocative praecō praecōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pregon
  • Spanish: pregón

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dīcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “praeco”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 530

Further reading

  • “praeco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “praeco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • praeco 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)
  • praeco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “praeco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “praeco”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “praeco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 283
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