prandium
Latin
Etymology
- Might be from Proto-Italic *prāmo-(e)d-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂mós (“first”) + *h₁ed- (“to eat”), thus originally "first meal". See prīmus, edō and compare Ancient Greek ἄριστον (áriston).[1][2][3] Also compare Proto-Slavic *obědъ (whence Russian обе́д (obéd)) from *o(b) + *ěsti.
- Another interpretation for the first element is *pram (“before > early”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂m.[4]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpran.di.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpran̪.d̪i.um]
Noun
prandium n (genitive prandiī or prandī); second declension
- late breakfast, luncheon, lunch (eaten about midday)
- Coordinate terms: ientāculum, cēna
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prandium | prandia |
| genitive | prandiī prandī1 |
prandiōrum |
| dative | prandiō | prandiīs |
| accusative | prandium | prandia |
| ablative | prandiō | prandiīs |
| vocative | prandium | prandia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: prãndzu
- Dalmatian: prinz
- Italian: pranzo, prandio
- → Maltese: pranzu
- Occitan: prandièra
- Old French: prangier
- Bourguignon: pregneire, pergneire
- Lorrain: pragné
- Picard: prangère, pringère
- → Old Irish: proind
- Irish: proinn
- → Portuguese: prândio
- Romanian: prânz
- Sardinian: pràngiu/prandiu
- Sicilian: pranzu
- → Welsh: prain
- ⇒ Late Latin: prandialis
- → English: prandial
References
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prandium”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 486
- ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 374
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “prandium”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
- “prandium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prandium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "prandium", 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)
- prandium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “prandium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “prandium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin