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- Prae- Ante- (before) - Latin Language Stack Exchange
Both ante and prae mean "before" in a spatial sense, but ante is used for objects at rest and prae for objects in motion Prae has the sense "because", ante does not When it comes to time, ante seems to be far more common for "before" (I get the impression that prae isn't possible at all, apart from giving that sense in compounds )
- classical latin - Why would the praeposition per ever take an ab . . .
In book 2 of The Æneid starting at line 210, Virgil has with by blood and fire in the ablative without bothering to decorate these with a pleonastic praeposition: Fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arva tenebant,
- Is praeter formed by adding prefix prae- to stem inter?
praeter prep , adv and con} [prae-; for term cf INTER1] Does it mean that praeter is formed by adding prefix prae- to stem inter? How shall I understand the meaning of praeter as derived from those of prae- and inter? See the relevant entries in the Oxford Latin Dictionary: Updated:
- word request - What are the antonyms of ob and prae? - Latin Language . . .
ante and prae, in their basic meanings, are synonyms, they both mean spatial "in front of, before" and temporal "before" Antonym of both, in these meanings, is post (spatial "behind", temporal "after, since")
- What underlying notion connects a fall or leap to prae + caput?
[1 ] from prae "before, forth" (see pre-) + caput "head" (see head (n )) Please correct me if my conjecture are incorrect: I conjecture the meaning of 'steep' to originate from the physical properties of the human head: imagine that you are a tick running atop someone's head from the back to the forehead
- What is the semantic field of derivatives of prae- + emere?
The sense of prae-"before others" is the same as that in praemium Lewis Short say this: praemĭum, ii, n [prae-emo, what one has got before or better than others] (class ) Note that they use has got in its original sense of "has acquired" here
- Meaning of a present participle in a verse of Vergils Eclogue 8
The prefix prae-means things like "in front" and the hopefully familiar participle veniens is roughly "coming" so praeveniens is "coming in front" or "preceding" It is somewhat unusual that the prefix of a verb is broken off, but it does happen This is what the rare splitting mentioned in the note is
- Are the following prep. + accusatives used for location?
In the picture you posted, there are three categories: accusative (motion toward), ablative (location), and ablative (motion from)
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