praecox
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
praecox (uncountable)
- dementia praecox
- 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:
- Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From praecoquō, from prae- + coquō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈprae̯.koks/, [ˈpɾae̯.kɔks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpre.koks/, [ˈprɛː.kɔks]
Adjective[edit]
praecox (genitive praecocis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- ripe before its time; premature
- precocious; untimely
Declension[edit]
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | ||
| Genitive | praecocis | praecocium | |||
| Dative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
| Accusative | praecocem | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | |
| Ablative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
| Vocative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | ||
References[edit]
- praecox in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praecox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette