praecox

praecox (uncountable)

1. dementia praecox
   • 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion:

     Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]

• precox

• exocarp, precoxa

• praecoquus

From praecoquō, from prae- + coquō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.koks/, [ˈpräe̯kɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.koks/, [ˈprɛːkoks]

praecox (genitive praecocis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. ripe before its time; premature
2. precocious; untimely

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• ⇒ Late Latin: (persica) praecocia (literally “early-ripe (peaches)”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “early-ripe (apple)”)
  • → Ancient Greek: πραικόκιον (praikókion) (see there for further descendants)

• → Catalan: precoç
• → English: precocious
• → French: précoce
• → Italian: precoce
• → Romanian: precoce
• → Sicilian: pricoci
• → Spanish: precoz

• “praecox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praecox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette