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prænominal

prænominal is the obsolete form of praenominal.

Meaning of praenominal

Adjective

praenominal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a praenomen.
    • perplexum usum praenominum et cognominum. ‘In origin and conception’ (says Mommsen) ‘the cognomen is very nearly akin to the praenomen, nay, in a certain degree, identical with it. For just as in the case of women the praenomen, without material alteration, and only through the absence of official...1874, John Wordsworth, “Ex M. Terentii Varronis Reliquiis”, in Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, part III (Selections from Authors), chapter section 7 (Liber de...

Questions about prænominal

What is prænominal the obsolete form of?
Prænominal is the obsolete form of praenominal.

Words near prænominal in the dictionary

  1. præmonitions
  2. præmunire
  3. præmunires
  4. præmunitory
  5. prænomen
  6. prænominal
  7. præoccupate
  8. præparation
  9. præparations
  10. præpare
  11. præpared

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prænominal (page history and authors); praenominal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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