prooemium

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See also: proœmium

English

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Noun

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prooemium (plural prooemia or prooemiums)

  1. Alternative form of proemium

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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prooemium n (genitive prooemiī or prooemī); second declension

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

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case 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

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

References

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  • 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