prenunciative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From prenunciate (“announce before”, whence prenunciation) + -ive, with influence from Latin praenuntiātīvus, a misreading in Pliny[1] of praenuntiōs, praenuntius (“foreboding”) and by analogy with praenuntiō (“announce beforehand; foretell”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
prenunciative (comparative more prenunciative, superlative most prenunciative)
References[edit]
- “praenuntiātīvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press