Latin–English dictionary

praementuens

Nervous and worried.

praemium

Something of value given in return for an act.

praemonitus

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

praemunio

To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.

praenuntia

Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.

praenuntius

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.

praeparatorius

Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

praepositio

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.

praepositus

The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group. [from 13th c.]

praepositus villae

(Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)

praepūtium

(anatomy) The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.

praeruptus

Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

praesaepe

(countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

praesāgium

A sense of evil to come.

praescriptum

(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.

praesens

Located in the immediate vicinity.

praesentia

The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.

praesento

(transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit. [from 14th c.]

praesertim

(focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.

praeses

(botany) A particularly notable member of a plant species, such as one of great size.

praesidēns

The head of state of a republic.

praesidium

A permanent military post.

praespectus

The act of seeing or looking at something.

praestābilis

Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

praestans

Exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority.

praestīgiae

(countable) A magician’s trick.

praestīgiātor

One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.

praestīgiātrix

One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.

praestō

(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

praestōlor

(transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

praestringō

(ambitransitive) To narrow, especially by application of pressure.

praesum

(intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.

praesūmō

(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.

praesumptiō

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

praesupponeo

To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.

praetentō

(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

praeter

(conjunctive) Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; moreover; furthermore.

praetereo

To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.

praeterire

(transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.

praeteritum

The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

praeteritum imperfectum

(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.

praeteritus

Having been or happened in the distant past.

praetermittō

(transitive) To leave out or exclude.

praetextatus

A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.

praetextum

(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

praetōrium

The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.

praetumidus

Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right.

praevalens

Ruling; governing; prevailing

praevaricō

(intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.

praeverbium

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.

praevideō

(obsolete) To provide.

Praga

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

pragensis

The capital city of the Czech Republic; the former capital of Czechoslovakia; the former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

pragmaticus

Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

prandeō

(transitive) To treat to lunch.

prandium

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

prātum

An open field, meadow, pasture.

prāvus

Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.

precarius

(comparable) Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.

precatio

(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.

precor

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

prehendo

(intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

prēlum

(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

prensātiō

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

preponderantia

Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

presbytera

(colloquial, obsolete) A priest’s wife.

prescriptio

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

pressiō

A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

pressūra

A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

pretio

To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

pretiōsus

Of high cost; expensive.

pretium

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

prex

(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.

prima

(historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.

prīmaevus

Young or seeming young.

primitivismus

The quality or state of being primitive.

primitivum

(linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.

primitivus

(not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

prīmitus

(not comparable) As it was in the beginning; at first.

prīmō

(formal) In the first place; before anything else; first.

prīmōgenitus

Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.

prīmordium

(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

prīmum

Before anything else; firstly.

prīmus

Of or belonging to a first family.

princeps

Primary; principal.

princeps elector

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

princeps elector imperii

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

principalis

Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

principatus

(by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.

principiālis

(informal) Being the first portion of some extended thing.

principium

(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

prior

Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

prioratus

A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.

priorissa

A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.

prīscus

Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.

pristinus

Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.

prius

occurring previously

prīvātim

Privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.

prīvigna

The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

prīvignus

The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.

privilegium

(ecclesiastical law, now, chiefly, historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope. [from 8th c.]

prīvō

(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

prō

In front of in space.

prō certō

Definitely, positively, without a doubt.

prō eō quod

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

prō tenōre

Accordingly; consequently.

probābilis

Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.

probabilitas

(countable) The probability of something happening.

probabiliter

In all likelihood.

probatoria

A document containing a certified statement.

probātus

Having received approval.

probē

(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

probitās

(uncountable, countable) The act, quality, or condition of being honest.

probito

To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]

problēma

A puzzling circumstance.

probō

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

proboscis

The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

probrum

Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid-16th c.]

probus

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

procācitās

The characteristic of being brash.

procax

(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.

prōcēdō

(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. [from 16th c.]

procella

(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.

procellōsus

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.

procer

The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group. [from 13th c.]

proceritas

The distance from the base to the top of something.

prōclīvī

Down a slope.

prōclīvis

Going down a slope or a hill.

procō

To request forcefully.

prōcrāstinātiō

The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.

procrastino

(transitive) To put off; to delay (something).

prōcreō

(transitive) To beget or conceive (offsprings).

procul

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

procurator

One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.

procus

One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.

prodeo

To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]

prodessendum

(economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.

prōdigentia

Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.

prōdigium

An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. [from 17th c.]

prōdigō

To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

prōdigus

Exorbitant

prōditiō

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

prōditor

(by extension) One who betrays any confidence or trust.

prōditrīx

(by extension) One who betrays any confidence or trust.

prōdō

(transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

prōdūcō

(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.

productio

The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]

productum

(countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.

prōductus

Lasting longer; protracted.

proeliātor

A person engaged in combat, often armed.