praeter

Continuing Proto-Italic *praiteros, from Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i (“before, across”) + *-teros (“contrastive suffix”). Equivalent to prae +‎ -ter.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.ter/, [ˈprae̯.tɛr]

praeter (+ accusative)

1. besides, except
2. beyond
3. more than

• → English: preter-, praeter-, præter-

• praeter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praeter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PRÆTER in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• prætĕr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,229
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • contrary to expectation: praeter spem, exspectationem
    
  • beyond all measure: extra, praeter modum
    
  • according to my custom: ex consuetudine mea (opp. praeter consuetudinem)
    
  • putting aside, except: praeter c. Accus.
    
• “praeter” on page 1,445 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “praeter”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 844/1