"prex" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: prexes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛks Etymology: From US college slang; from 1828. Head templates: {{en-noun}} prex (plural prexes)
  1. (US, university slang) A president, especially of a university. Tags: US Categories (topical): Universities Synonyms (president, especially of a university): prexy
    Sense id: en-prex-en-noun-uJil46Kj Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Forms: prexes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛks Head templates: {{en-noun}} prex (plural prexes)
  1. Abbreviation of prefix. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: prefix
    Sense id: en-prex-en-noun-fLoS48Ch
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /preks/ [Classical], [prɛks̠] [Classical], /preks/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [prɛks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*preḱ-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*preks}} Proto-Italic *preks, {{der|la|ine-pro|*preḱ-||to request, ask}} Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”) Head templates: {{la-noun|prex/prec<3>|g=f}} prex f (genitive precis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|prex/prec<3>}} Forms: precis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], prex [nominative, singular], precēs [nominative, plural], precis [genitive, singular], precum [genitive, plural], precī [dative, singular], precibus [dative, plural], precem [accusative, singular], precēs [accusative, plural], prece [ablative, singular], precibus [ablative, plural], prex [singular, vocative], precēs [plural, vocative]
  1. prayer; request Tags: declension-3, feminine Synonyms: vōtum, rogātiō, precātiō, petītiō, postulātum
    Sense id: en-prex-la-noun-9V3uIvWR Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 52 48
  2. entreaty Tags: declension-3, feminine Synonyms: rogātiō, supplicium
    Sense id: en-prex-la-noun-JIUPybsd Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: precārius, precor Related terms: procō, procor, procāx

Inflected forms

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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.