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Latin
Etymology
Supposed to have been earlier *priuscus, from prior, q.v. Equivalent to prius + -cus; ultimately composed of Proto-Indo-European *pre- + *-yōs + *-kos.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prīscus (feminine prīsca, neuter prīscum); first/second-declension adjective
- 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,
- ancient
- Synonyms: antīquus, longinquus, vetustus
- Antonym: recēns
- old-fashioned
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- “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