praetorium

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See also: prætorium

English

Noun

praetorium (plural praetoria)

  1. Alternative form of pretorium

Latin

Etymology

From praetor +‎ -ium.

Noun

praetōrium n (genitive praetōriī or praetōrī); second declension

  1. headquarters; general's tent
  2. council of war
  3. governor's palace
  4. villa

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative praetōrium praetōria
genitive praetōriī
praetōrī1
praetōriōrum
dative praetōriō praetōriīs
accusative praetōrium praetōria
ablative praetōriō praetōriīs
vocative praetōrium praetōria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Ancient Greek: πραιτώριον (praitṓrion)

References

  • praetorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • praetorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • praetorium 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)
  • praetorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    • the admiral's ship; the flagship: navis praetoria (Liv. 21. 49)
  • praetorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • praetorium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • praetorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • praetorium”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press