English

Noun

praecox ‎(uncountable)

1. dementia praecox
   • 1995, Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion

     Psychiatrists did not know the etiology of dementia praecox, but their working assumption was that the brains of praecox patients exhibited "demonstrable microscopic cortex changes" as well as "gross anatomical anomalies" […]

Latin

Alternative forms

• praecoquus

Etymology

From praecoquō, from prae- + coquō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈprae̯.koks/, [ˈprae̯.kɔks]

Adjective

praecox m, f, n ‎(genitive praecocis); third declension

1. ripe before its time; premature
2. precocious; untimely

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• praecox in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “praecox”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.