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Latin
Etymology
prae- + iūdicium; compare also praeiūdicō.
Pronunciation
Noun
praeiūdicium n (genitive praeiūdiciī or praeiūdicī); second declension
- precedent, example
- prejudgment
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “praeiudicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praeiudicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- prejudice: opinio praeiudicata, also simply opinio (not praeiudicium = a preliminary decision)
- “praeiudicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers