praecox
English
Noun
praecox (uncountable)
- dementia praecox
- 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:
- Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]
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Latin
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Etymology
From praecoquō + -s, from prae- + coquō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈprae̯.kɔks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈprɛː.koks]
Adjective
praecox (genitive praecocis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- ripe before its time; premature
- precocious; untimely
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | ||
| genitive | praecocis | praecocium | |||
| dative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
| accusative | praecocem | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | |
| ablative | praecocī | praecocibus | |||
| vocative | praecox | praecocēs | praecocia | ||
Derived terms
- ⇒ Late Latin: (persica) praecocia (literally “early-ripe (peaches)”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “early-ripe (apple)”)
- → Ancient Greek: πραικόκιον (praikókion) (see there for further descendants)
Descendants
- → Catalan: precoç
- → English: precocious
- → French: précoce
- → Friulian: precoç
- → Italian: precoce
- → Occitan: precòce
- → Romanian: precoce
- → Sicilian: pricoci
- → Spanish: precoz
References
- “praecox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praecox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.