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Prænestine, a. and n.|praɪˈnɛstiːn, priː-|
[ad. L. Prænestīnus f. Præneste Palestrina: see -ine1.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Præneste or its inhabitants.
1880tr. Woltmann & Woermann's Hist. Painting I. iv. 88 The engraved metal caskets of the kind commonly known as Prænestine cistæ, because they have been found for the most part at Prænestê, the modern Palestrina. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 654/2 Præneste was chiefly famed for its great temple of Fortune and for its oracle, in connexion with the temple, known as the ‘Prænestine lots’ (sortes Prænestinæ). 1937Oxf. Compan. Classical Lit. 163/1 As regards Latin writing, in the inscription on the Praenestine fībula.., probably of the 6th c.,..the direction is from right to left. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 332 The oldest record of Italic is a Praenestine fibula of the seventh century B.C., Manios med fhefhaked Numasioi ‘Manius me fecit Numerio’. 1970Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 873/1 Praeneste has yielded the earliest specimen of Latin, whose peculiarities confirm Festus' statement..that Praenestine Latin was abnormal. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 60 Praenestine fhfhaked..is an old reduplicated perfect remade into an aorist by the addition of *-t (> Early Latin -d).
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Præneste.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 897/2 The Romans..were inclined to sneer at the pronunciation and idiom of the Prænestines. 1949Oxf. Classical Dict. 726/1 Praenestines loyally resisted Pyrrhus..and Hannibal, and actually preferred their own status to that of Roman citizens.
Hence Præneˈstinian, the extinct Latin dialect spoken by the Prænestines.
1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 333 To the [Latino-Faliscan] group also belonged the closely similar Hernician and Prænestinian. 1954[see Latino-Faliscan s.v. Latino-]. |