praemunio

• praemoeniō, præmœniō (Archaic Latin)

From prae- (“before; in front”) +‎ mūniō (“to wall, defend with a wall, fortify, strengthen”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯ˈmuː.ni.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /preˈmu.ni.o/,

praemūniō (present infinitive praemūnīre, perfect active praemūnīvī, supine praemūnītum); fourth conjugation

1. to fortify in front; defend in advance
2. to safeguard, protect, secure
3. (figurative, rhetoric) to condition the minds of an audience before a speech (as an orator), to reinforce one's rhetorical fortifications, guard against counterargument, strengthen one's argument
4. (figurative, law) to prepare one's legal defense (as a lawyer), to anticipate objections and formulate strong rebuttals to argue that would bolster one's side of the case

• In Medieval Latin, this word was confused with (and used with the meaning of) praemoneō (“forewarn”), as in the writ of praemunire facias.

• praemūnitiō

• “praemunio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praemunio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praemunio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1222.
• praemunio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 1862-1863