prooemium

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See also: proœmium

English

Noun

prooemium (plural prooemia or prooemiums)

  1. Alternative form of proemium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).

Pronunciation

Noun

prooemium n (genitive prooemiī or prooemī); second declension

  1. a preface, introduction, prelude
  2. (poetic) a beginning

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative prooemium prooemia
genitive prooemiī
prooemī1 		prooemiōrum
dative prooemiō prooemiīs
accusative prooemium prooemia
ablative prooemiō prooemiīs
vocative prooemium prooemia

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

Descendants

  • English: proem
  • French: proême
  • German: Proömium

References

  • “prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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