precaria

See also: precária

English

precaria

precaria

Ellipsis of charta precāria (“document of petition”, for the latter word see etymology 2). Attested in the Formulary of Marculf.^[1]

precāria f (genitive precāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

First-declension noun.

Inherited forms:
- Franco-Provençal: preyére
- Old French: preiere, priere, proiere, preere, praiere (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: preguièra, pregièra
  - → Italian: preghiera
Unsorted borrowings: (semi-learned, presumably spreading southwest from Occitan)
- → Italian: precaria
- → Old Catalan: pregaria (from 1398)
  - Catalan: pregària
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
  - Portuguese: pregaria
- → Old Occitan: pregaria (from 13th c.)
  - Occitan: pregària
- → Old Spanish: pregaria (from 13th c.), plegaria (from 14th c.)
  - Spanish: plegaria

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “preces”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631

precāria

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

precāriā

precaria