prologue

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

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prologue (plural prologues)

  1. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
    Synonyms: forespeech; see also Thesaurus:foreword
    Antonyms: epilogue; see also Thesaurus:afterword
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday [] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. []
  2. One who delivers a prologue.
  3. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
  4. (cycling) An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
  5. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.

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Verb

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prologue (third-person singular simple present prologues, present participle prologuing, simple past and past participle prologued)

  1. To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French prologue, a borrowing from Latin prologus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

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Noun

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prologue m (plural prologues)

  1. prologue
    Coordinate term: épilogue

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Verb

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prologue

  1. inflection of prologar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative