prologus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Ancient Greek πρό (pró)

Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos

Proto-Hellenic *lógos

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos)bor.

Latin prōlogus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos).

Noun

prōlogus m (genitive prōlogī); second declension

1. a preface to a play; a prologue
2. one who recites a prologue

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōlogus	prōlogī
genitive	prōlogī	prōlogōrum
dative	prōlogō	prōlogīs
accusative	prōlogum	prōlogōs
ablative	prōlogō	prōlogīs
vocative	prōloge	prōlogī

Descendants

• Old French: prologue

References

“prolŏgus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “prologus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prologus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “prologus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prologus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016