preludium
Appearance
See also: prelúdium
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- praeludium, præludium (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin praeludium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈluːdiəm/, /-ˈljuːdiəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəˈluːdiəm/
Noun
[edit]preludium (plural preludiums or preludia)
- (now rare) prelude, portent
- 1563, Iohn Foxe, “Book 5”, in Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] [1], London: Iohn Day, page 1006:
- […] and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhoꝛte pꝛæludium.
- 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:
- Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium. […]
- 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, “Book XIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 445:
- This Menelaus knows, expos'd to ſhare / With me the rough Preludium of the War.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Latin praeludium
Noun
[edit]preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludier, definite plural preludia or preludiene)
References
[edit]- “preludium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Latin praeludium
Noun
[edit]preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludium, definite plural preludia)
References
[edit]- “preludium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Präludium, from Italian preludio, from Latin prae-ludo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]preludium n
- (music) prelude (short, free-form piece of music, serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece)
- (music) prelude (short, stand-alone piece of music)
- prelude (introductory or preliminary performance or event)
Declension
[edit]Declension of preludium
singular | plural | |
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nominative | preludium | preludia |
genitive | preludium | preludiów |
dative | preludium | preludiom |
accusative | preludium | preludia |
instrumental | preludium | preludiami |
locative | preludium | preludiach |
vocative | preludium | preludia |
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- preludium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- preludium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin praeludium, cognate with German Präludium, based on praeludere, used in Swedish since 1734 (or perhaps 1615).
Noun
[edit]preludium n
- a prelude, an opening, an introduction (in music and literature)
- a preparation, a sign of things to come
- Såsom ett preludium till jul ingår ju första adventssöndagen.
- As a prelude to Christmas comes the first Sunday of Advent.
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | preludium | preludiums |
definite | preludiet | preludiets | |
plural | indefinite | preludier | preludiers |
definite | preludierna | preludiernas |
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