prebende

Borrowed from Middle French prebende or Latin praebenda.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpreːˈbɛn.də/

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• Hyphenation: pre‧ben‧de
• Rhymes: -ɛndə

prebende f (plural prebenden or prebendes)

1. a prebend, a payment fixed to certain ecclesiastical positions
2. an ecclesiastical position which carries such prebend, in the Catholic Church mainly canon

prebende f

1. plural of prebenda

prēbende

1. vocative masculine singular of prēbendus

prebende

1. inflection of prebendar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Old Swedish prebenda, from Medieval Latin præbenda, from præbēre (“to hand over, to give”).

prebende n

1. (historical) prebend
   • 1984, Adam av Bremen, “Skolion 52”, in Emanuel Svenberg, transl., Historien om Hamburgstiftet och dess biskopar‎^[1], Proprius förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek & Samfundet pro fide et christianismo, archived from the original on 6 May 2025, page 126:

     Till enskilda klerker i hans kyrka, som han såg var i behov av hjälp, skänkte han i hemlighet fyra till tio öre silver var. Många fick också ett prebende, andra hans egna kläder.

     To individual clerics of his church, whom he saw were in need of help, he secretly gave four to ten solidi of silver. Many also received a prebend, others his own clothes.

• prebende in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• prebende in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)