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Where does “prex” come from?

prex (Latin) comes from Proto-Italic preks, from Proto-Indo-European préḱs, from Proto-Indo-European preḱ-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥ḱneh₂.

prex (Latin): prayer; request; entreaty

Definitions

  1. prayer; request; entreaty

Ancestry of “prex”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italicpreks—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanpréḱs—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpreḱ-to ask
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥ḱneh₂—

Words derived from “prex”

  • prayer
  • pray
  • praying
  • precarious
  • deprecated
  • deprecating
  • precariously
  • prayerful
  • deprecate
  • deprecation
  • precariousness
  • deprecatory
  • prayerfully
  • imprecation
  • deprecatingly
  • prayerless
  • preces
  • prayest
  • prayerfulness
  • precatory
  • imprecate
  • prayerlessness
  • prayerlike
  • precative
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