precoce

See also: précoce

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French précoce.

Adjective

precoce (comparative more precoce, superlative most precoce)

  1. (obsolete) precocious

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “precoce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Galician

Verb

precoce

  1. inflection of precocer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

precoce (not comparable)

  1. precocious, precoce

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecox. Doublet of albicocca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /preˈkɔ.t͡ʃe/, /preˈko.t͡ʃe/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔtʃe, -otʃe
  • Hyphenation: pre‧cò‧ce, pre‧có‧ce

Adjective

precoce (plural precoci, superlative precocissimo)

  1. premature, untimely
  2. hasty
  3. precocious, early

Derived terms

References
  1. precoce in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading
  • precoce in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praecox. Doublet of abricó.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈkɔ.si/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾeˈkɔ.se/

Adjective

precoce m or f (plural precoces)

  1. precocious (characterised by exceptionally early occurrence or development)
  2. early, early-stage
    sinais de alerta precoces.
    early warning signs

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praecocem, or via French précoce, itself borrowed from Latin.

Adjective

precoce m or f or n (masculine plural precoci, feminine and neuter plural precoce)

  1. precocious

Declension
Declension of precoce
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite precoce precoce precoci precoce
definite precocele precocea precocii precocele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite precoce precoce precoci precoce
definite precocelui precocei precocilor precocelor
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