praesaepe

== Latin == === Alternative forms === praesēpe praesaepēs / praesēpēs praesaepis / praesēpis praesaepia / praesēpia praesaepium / praesēpium === Etymology === From praesaepiō (“barricade, fence in”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [prae̯ˈsae̯.pɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [preˈs̬ɛː.pe] === Noun === praesaepe n (genitive praesaepis); third declension enclosure, pen, fold (by extension) hut, dwelling a crib (astronomy) space between the two stars called Aselli in the constellation of Cancer. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== Galician: presebe Italian: presepe Portuguese: pesebre, presepe Sicilian: prisepi Spanish: pesebre → Proto-Brythonic: *preseb (“manger”) Breton: prezeb Cornish: presep Welsh: preseb === References === “praesaepe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “praesaepe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “praesaepe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.