prae

From Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i. Cognate with Old Latin *pri (“before”), as in prior, prīdiē, etc. Other Italic cognates include Oscan 𐌐𐌓𐌀𐌉 (prai) and Umbrian 𐌐𐌓𐌄 (pre).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /prae̯/

prae

1. before
2. in front

prae (+ ablative)

1. before
2. in front of
3. because of

• (before, in front of): ante, prō

• prae-
• praeter

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: prea

• prae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prae in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• prae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • to pass as a man of great learning: magnam doctrinae speciem prae se ferre
    
  • to give the impression of...; have the outward aspect of..: speciem prae se ferre
    
  • to drive the enemy before one: prae se agere hostem
    
• Buck, Carl (1904) A grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, Ginn & Co, page 78