precaria

See also: precária

English

Noun

precaria

1. plural of precarium

Italian

Adjective

precaria

1. feminine singular of precario

Latin

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of charta precāria (“document of petition”, for the latter word see etymology 2). Attested in the Formulary of Marculf.

Noun

precāria f (genitive precāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. petition

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	precāria	precāriae
Genitive	precāriae	precāriārum
Dative	precāriae	precāriīs
Accusative	precāriam	precāriās
Ablative	precāriā	precāriīs
Vocative	precāria	precāriae

Descendants

• Inherited forms:
  • Franco-Provençal: preyére, prayire, proyire, prayizhe, prèyire
  • Old French: preiere, priere, proiere, preere, praiere (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: preguièra, pregièra
    • → Italian: preghiera
• Unsorted borrowings: (semi-learned, presumably spreading southwest from Occitan)
  • → Old Catalan: pregaria (from 1398)
    • Catalan: pregària
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Portuguese: pregaria
  • → Old Occitan: pregaria (from 13th c.)
    • Occitan: pregària
  • → Old Spanish: pregaria (from 13th c.), plegaria (from 14th c.)
    • Spanish: plegaria

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “preces”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631

Etymology 2

Adjective

precāria

1. inflection of precārius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

precāriā

1. ablative feminine singular of precārius

Spanish

Adjective

precaria

1. feminine singular of precario