prooemium

See also: proœmium

English

prooemium (plural prooemia or prooemiums)

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Ancient Greek πρό (pró)

Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)

Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?

Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)

Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion)bor.

Latin prooemium

prooemium n (genitive prooemiī or prooemī); second declension

a preface, introduction, prelude
- 1772, Finnur Jónsson, chapter 1, in Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ [The Ecclesiastical History of Iceland]‎^[1], volume 1, Copenhagen: Orphanotrophius Regii, section 3, page 2:
  Similiter etiam proœmium antiqviſſimi libri LANDNAMÆ: Sed anteqvam Islandia habitari (a Norvegis) cœpit, viri illic erant, qvos Norvegi Papas appellant.
  [similiter etiam prooemium antīquissimī librī Landnamae: sed antequam Īslandia habitārī (ā Norvegīs) coepit, virī illīc erant, quōs Norvegī Pāpās appellant.]
  Similarly, the preface to the most ancient book, the Landnámabók, states that before Iceland was settled by the Norwegians, there were men there whom the Norwegians call Papas.
(poetic) a beginning

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

“prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers