different between prex vs preg

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

From US college slang; from 1828.

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

1. (US, college slang) A president, especially of a university.

Synonyms

• (president, especially of a university): prexy

Etymology 2

Noun

prex (plural prexes)

1. Prefix.

References

Anagrams

• XPer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pre?- (“to request, ask”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /preks/, [p??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /preks/, [p??ks]

Noun

prex f (genitive precis); third declension

1. prayer; request
2. entreaty

Declension

• The nominative singular, prex, and genitive singular, precis, are unattested in Classical Latin.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• prec?rius
• precor

Related terms

• proc?
• procor
• proc?x

Descendants

• Portuguese: prece
• English: prayer

References

• prex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• prex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

Clipping of pregnant or pregnancy.

Adjective

preg (comparative more preg, superlative most preg)

1. (informal) Pregnant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pregnant

   • 1977, Erich Segal, Oliver's Story, HarperTorch (2002), ?ISBN, page 318:

     The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.

   • 1989, Carole L. Glickfeld, "What My Mother Knows", in Useful Gifts, University of Georgia Press (1989), ?ISBN, page 4:

     My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.

   • 1994, Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat, Magna Large Print Books (1994), ?ISBN, page 225:

     'Am I? Well, I'll let you in to a secret. I'm pretty sure I'm preg."

Noun

preg (plural pregs)

1. (informal) Pregnancy.
   • 2008, Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie, Vantage Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 29:

     Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs!

   • 2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion, Ballantine (2008), ?ISBN, page 308:

     She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.

   • 2010, Linda Russell, "Notes from the new-mother zone", The Globe and Mail, 8 June 2010:

     There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.

Anagrams

• grep

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

preg n (definite singular preget, indefinite plural preg, definite plural prega or pregene)

1. impression

Verb

preg

1. imperative of prege