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Latin
Etymology
From praeter- + quam.
Adverb
praeterquam (not comparable)
- beyond, besides
- Synonyms: praeter, nisi
- except, save
- not only
References
- “praeterquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praeterquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praeterquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to except the fact that..: praeterquam quod or nisi quod