prebenda

Borrowed from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾəˈβen.də]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pɾəˈben.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾeˈben.da]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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prebenda f (plural prebendes)

1. prebend
2. sinecure, cushy number

• “prebenda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “prebenda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “prebenda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “prebenda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Late Latin praebenda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprebendɑ/, [ˈpre̞be̞ndɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ebendɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pre‧ben‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): pre‧ben‧da

prebenda

1. (historical) prebend

Borrowed from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus. Compare the doublet profenda.

prebenda f (plural prebende)

1. prebend
   • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 62:

     [F]arisei, sepolcri imbiancati, pronti a vendersi per una prebenda, ma erano presi dal dubbio.

     Pharisees, whitewashed sepulchres, ready to sell themselves for a prebend, but they felt doubtful.

• prebendato

prēbenda

1. inflection of prēbendus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

prēbendā

1. ablative feminine singular of prēbendus

Borrowed from German Präbende, from French prébende, from Ecclesiastical Latin praebenda, from Latin praebeō.

• IPA^(key): /prɛˈbɛn.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Syllabification: pre‧ben‧da

prebenda f

1. (historical, Roman Catholicism) prebend (stipend paid to a canon)

• prebenda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus.

• Hyphenation: pre‧ben‧da

prebenda f (plural prebendas)

1. prebend, prebendary
2. (figurative) sinecure

• “prebenda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈbenda/ [pɾeˈβ̞ẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda
• Syllabification: pre‧ben‧da

Borrowed from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus.

prebenda f (plural prebendas)

1. prebend, prebendary
2. sinecure

prebenda

1. inflection of prebendar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “prebenda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024