antecenium

== Latin == === Etymology === ante- (“before”) +‎ cēna (“meal, dinner”) +‎ -ium === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [an.tɛˈkeː.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an.teˈt͡ʃɛː.ni.um] === Noun === antecēnium n (genitive antecēniī or antecēnī); second declension a meal taken before the principal meal, a lunch, luncheon ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== cēnō === References === “antecenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “antecenium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.