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Latin
Etymology
From praecō + -ium.
Noun
praecōnium n (genitive praecōniī or praecōnī); second declension
- the office of a public crier or auctioneer
- a publishing or proclaiming
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Adjective
praecōnium
- inflection of praecōnius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “praeconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praeconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praeconium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “praeconium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “praeconium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin