Glossary of Latin Words.
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- presbyteratus:—priesthood.
- presbyterium:—priesthood; a presbytery; the choir of a church.
- presentum:—a present, a gift.
- primitiare:—to begin.
- princeps:—a prince.
- principalium:—an heirloom; a mortuary.
- principatus:—principality.
- principissa:—a princess.
- principium burgi:— a town hall.
- prior:—a monastic officer, next to the abbot in an abbey, head of a priory.
- prioratus:—a priory.
- priorissa:—a prioress.
- prisa:—a prize; booty; a fine; prisage.
- prisagium:—prisage, a share of prizes; a right of taking prizes; a duty on wine and provisions.
- prisalia:—reprisals.
- prisia:—prisage.
- priso:—a prisoner of war; a prison; imprisonment.
- prisona:—a prison.
- prisonare:—to keep in prison.
- prisonarius:—a prisoner.
- privatus:—privy.
- privicarnium:—fasting; Lent.
- privilegiare:—to grant a privilege to.
- proaula:—a porch.
- probare:—used for propriare.
- probaticus:—connected with sheep.
- probator:—an accuser; an approver.
- probatum:—a sheep.
- probi homines:—good men, an elected body of citizens forming a common council.
- proceres:—ornamental heads of beams on house fronts.
- Processio:—Rogation week.
- processionale:—a book containing directions for and music to be used in processions, the service for gangdays, litanies, or intercessions.
- proclamator: —a crier; in the Court of Common Pleas, proclamator.
- proconsul:—a justice in eyre.
- procuratio:—procuration, a payment, originally in victuals, by the inferior clergy to bishop or archdeacon at visitations; a proxy; necessaries, as food and clothing; a meal.
- procurator:—a proctor.
- procuratorium:—procurator; a proxy.
- proditio:—treason.
- proditionaliter:—treasonably.
- profectus:—profit.
- profestum:—the eve of a feast.
- proficum:—profit.
- profrum:—profer, time appointed tor officers to make their accounts.
- promarius:—a waiter.
- promtorium, promptuarium:—a buttery; a storehouse.
- propalare:—to publish.
