praeco

Latin

Etymology

Per De Vaan, by syncope from *praedicō, *praedicōn-, with the same prefix and root as the verb praedicō (“proclaim, declare publicly”) from prae- +‎ dicō (“dedicate, assign to”) combined with the agent noun suffix -ō, -ōn-.^[1] An alternative proposal derives it by syncope from *praevocō, *praevocōn-, from prae- and the root of the verb vocō (“call, invoke”).^[2]

Noun

praecō m (genitive praecōnis); third declension

herald, crier
Synonyms: nūntius, internūntia
auctioneer

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	praecō	praecōnēs
genitive	praecōnis	praecōnum
dative	praecōnī	praecōnibus
accusative	praecōnem	praecōnēs
ablative	praecōne	praecōnibus
vocative	praecō	praecōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Galician-Portuguese: pregon
- Galician: pregón
- Portuguese: pregão
Spanish: pregón
- → Catalan: pregó

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dīcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “praeco”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 530

“praeco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“praeco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
praeco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
praeco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“praeco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“praeco”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “praeco”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 283

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dīcō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

[2] Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “praeco”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 530

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