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English
Noun
praecox (uncountable)
- dementia praecox
1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
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Latin
Etymology
From praecoquō + -s, from prae- + coquō.
Pronunciation
Adjective
praecox (genitive praecocis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- ripe before its time; premature
- precocious; untimely
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
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References
- “praecox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praecox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.