prandium

Latin[edit]

prandium on Latin Wikipedia

Might be from Proto-Italic *prāmo-(e)d-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂mós (“first”) + *h₁ed- (“to eat”), thus originally "first meal". See prīmus, edō and compare Ancient Greek ἄριστον (áriston).^[1]^[2]^[3]
Another interpretation for the first element is *pram (“before > early”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂m.^[4]

prandium n (genitive prandiī or prandī); second declension

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

Aromanian: prãndzu
Dalmatian: prinz
Italian: pranzo, prandio
Occitan: prandièra
Old French: prangier
- Bourguignon: pregneire, pergneire
- Lorrain: pragné
- Picard: prangère, pringère
→ Old Irish: proind
- Irish: proinn
→ Portuguese: prândio
Romanian: prânz
Sardinian: pràngiu/prandiu
Sicilian: pranzu
- → Maltese: pranzu
→ Welsh: prain
⇒ Late Latin: prandialis
- → English: prandial

^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prandium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 486
^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎^[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 374
^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prandium”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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“prandium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
prandium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
prandium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“prandium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“prandium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin