precaria

precaria

1. plural of precarium

precaria

1. feminine singular of precario

Ellipsis of charta precāria (“document of petition”, for the latter word see etymology 2). Attested in the Formulary of Marculf.[1]

precāria f (genitive precāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. petition

First-declension noun.

• Inherited forms:
  • Franco-Provençal: preyére
  • Old French: preiere, priere, proiere, preere, praiere (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: preguièra, pregièra
    • → Italian: preghiera
• Unsorted borrowings: (semi-learned, presumably spreading southwest from Occitan)
  • → Old Catalan: pregaria (from 1398)
    • Catalan: pregària
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Portuguese: pregaria
  • → Old Occitan: pregaria (from 13th c.)
    • Occitan: pregària
  • → Old Spanish: pregaria (from 13th c.), plegaria (from 14th c.)
    • Spanish: plegaria

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “preces”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631

precāria

1. inflection of precārius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

precāriā

1. ablative feminine singular of precārius

precaria

1. feminine singular of precario