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Latin
Etymology
praescribo + -tio.
Noun
praescrīptiō f (genitive praescrīptiōnis); third declension
- preface, introduction, commencement
- pretext, excuse, pretence
- precept, order, rule, law
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “praescriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praescriptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praescriptio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- praescriptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “praescriptio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praescriptio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “praescriptio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin