prandium

 prandium on Latin Wikipedia

• Might be from Proto-Italic *prāmo-(e)d-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂mós (“first”) + *h₁ed- (“to eat”), thus originally "first meal". See prīmus, edō and compare Ancient Greek ἄριστον (áriston).^[1][2][3] Also compare Proto-Slavic *obědъ (whence Russian обе́д (obéd)) from *o(b) + *ěsti.
• Another interpretation for the first element is *pram (“before > early”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂m.^[4]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpran.di.um/, [ˈprän̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpran.di.um/, [ˈprän̪d̪ium]

prandium n (genitive prandiī or prandī); second declension

1. late breakfast, luncheon, lunch (eaten about midday)

   Coordinate terms: ientāculum, cēna

   1. (figurative) any meal

      Synonyms: cibus, ēsca

      Nūllum grātuītum prandium ― No free lunch (19th-century US)

   2. (of animals) fodder

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• prandeō
• prandiolum, prandiculum

• dēprāns
• imprānsus
• prānsitō
• prānsor
• prānsōrius

• “prandium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prandium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prandium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• prandium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “prandium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prandium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin