praemoneo

prae (“before”) +‎ moneō (“warn, advise”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prae̯ˈmɔ.ne.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [preˈmɔː.ne.o]

praemoneō (present infinitive praemonēre, perfect active praemonuī, supine praemonitum); second conjugation

1. to admonish or remind beforehand, advise, forewarn, premonish

   Synonyms: admoneō, moneō, praedīcō, dēlīberō, condīcō

2. to foretell, predict, foreshow; foreshadow

   Synonyms: vāticinor, praesāgiō, portendō, moneō, praedīcō, canō

   • 1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:

     […] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.

     For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.

• In medieval Latin, praemūniō (“fortify”) was confused with (and used with the meaning of) this word, as in the writ of praemunire facias.

• praemonitiō
• praemonitor
• praemonitum
• praemonitus

• English: premonish
• Italian: premonire

• “praemoneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praemoneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praemoneo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.