priscus

Supposed to have been earlier *priuscus, from prior, q.v. Equivalent to prius +‎ -cus; ultimately composed of Proto-Indo-European *pre- + *-yōs + *-kos.^[1] Possibly cognate to English fresh.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpriːs.kus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpris.kus/,

prīscus (feminine prīsca, neuter prīscum); first/second-declension adjective

1. former

   Synonyms: prīstinus, senex, vetus

   Antonym: novus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.197–198:

     plūrīs opēs nunc sunt quam prīscī temporis annīs,
     dum populus pauper, dum nova Rōma fuit,

     Now wealth is more valued than it was in years of former times,
     when the nation was poor, when Rome was new,

2. ancient

   Synonyms: antīquus, longinquus, vetustus

   Antonym: recēns

3. old-fashioned

First/second-declension adjective.

• Prīsca Latīna
• Prīsca Latīnitās

• Italian: prisco
• Portuguese: prisco

• prīstinus

• “priscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “priscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• priscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
    
• “priscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “priscus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray