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Etymology
From English price.
Noun
praes
- price
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From prae- + vas (“bond, surety”).
Noun
praes m (genitive praedis); third declension
- surety, bondsman
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From prae.
Adverb
praes (not comparable)
- at hand; now
References
- “praes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
- “praes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “praes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin