anteloquium

From ante (“before”) + loquor (“say, speak”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.teˈlo.kʷi.um/

anteloquium n (genitive anteloquiī); second declension

1. The right of speaking before another.
2. An introduction, preface, prologue, proem.

Second declension.

• (introduction, preface): introitus, praefātiō, prooemium

• English: anteloquy

• anteloquium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anteloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• anteloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• anteloquium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016