Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1445.praeter on page 1445
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praeter besides
praeter is a Latin Preposition that primarily means besides.
Definitions for praeter
Wheelock's Latin
Preposition
- 1
+acc., besides, except, beyond, past
English derivatives:
preterit preterition pretermit preternatural
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Conjunction
- 1
(as disjunctive conj.) Besides, except. (b) (governing clauses); ~quod, apart from the fact that.
Adverb
- 1
So as to pass by, past, by.
- 2
In addition, as well, also, besides.
Preposition
- 1
Passing or so as to pass by, past, across.
- 2
Beyond in degree, etc., surpassing, exceeding (a standard, expectation, hope, or sim.). (b) (compendiously) to a greater degree than, so as to surpass (other persons or things).
- 3
Out of line with, contrary to. (b) (w. persons as obj.) so as to dissent from, at variance with.
- 4
In addition to, as well as, besides. (b) praeter haec (hoc), besides this, as well; praeter ea: see PRAETEREA. (c) praeter id quod, in addition to the fact that.
- 5
Other than, with the exception of, except, but, save. (a) (in neg. cls. or equiv.). (b) (in interr. or conditional cls.).
Sentences with praeter
Latin to English
Saepe grandis natu senex nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, praeter aetatem. [De tranquillitate animi, III,8]Compare Often a man who is very old in years has no evidence to prove that he has lived a long life other than his age.
In principatu commutando saepius, nil praeter domini nomen mutant pauperes.Compare In changing rulers, the poor usually change nothing but the name of their master.
Tongilianus habet nasum scio, non nego. Sed iam nil praeter nasum Tongilianus habet.Compare Tongilianus has a nose: I know, I don't deny it. But now Tongilianus has nothing but a nose.
Frumentum omnis, praeter qui sui cum porto, comburo.Compare They burn all the corn, except what they were going to take with them.
Praeter peccatum ac culpa, qui semper careo, nihil sum homo pertimescendus.Compare Except error and blame, from which you have ever been free, nothing is to be greatly dreaded by man.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 286.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1445.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "praeter (prep.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/praeter.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 286.praeter on page 286
