prooemium

See also: proœmium

Latin

Alternative forms
  • prohoemium, prohemum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /proˈoe̯.mi.um/, [proˈoe̯miʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈe.mi.um/, [proˈɛːmium]

Noun

prooemium n (genitive prooemiī or prooemī); second declension

  1. a preface, introduction, prelude
  2. (poetic) a beginning

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prooemium prooemia
Genitive prooemiī
prooemī1		 prooemiōrum
Dative prooemiō prooemiīs
Accusative prooemium prooemia
Ablative prooemiō prooemiīs
Vocative prooemium prooemia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • English: proem

References
  • “prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “prooemium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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