verbirregular conjugation
praetereō
praetereō (present infinitive praeterīre, perfect active praeteriī or praeterīvī, supine praeteritum)
Classical[prae̯ˈtɛ.re.oː]Ecclesiastical[preˈtɛː.re.o]
Meaning
- to pass by or go by
At puer Ascanius mediīs in vallibus ācrī gaudet equō, iamque hōs cursū, iam praeterit illōs, [...].
But within the valleys, young Ascanius delights in [riding] his keen-spirited horse, and now in his galloping he passes by these [ones], now those, ….29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.156–157 - to surpass or excel
- to disregard, neglect, omit or miss
Sed, quod scīscitārī paene praeterīvī, quō dictō factōve rūrsum exūtīs pinnulīs illīs ad meum redībō Lūcium?
But, as I almost neglected (or forgot) asking you, with what incantation or action will I cast off those little feathers and return to my old self again?c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.23Verum non minima fuit apud priscos disceptatio a superficie an ab oculo ipsi radii erumpant. Quae disceptatio sane difficilis atque apud nos admodum inutilis pretereatur.
It is true there was a significant dispute among the ancients on whether these rays [of light] came out of the surface or from the eye. This really difficult question, which is quite irrelevant for us, may be disregarded.1435, Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura 1.5 - to spend, pass
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
trānseō, omittōpraetereō -īre — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 5
praeter locum eōpraetereō -īre — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 7, 18, 25
praeter aliquem eōpraetereō -īre — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 4, 11, 21
Conjugation irregular
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | praetereō | praeterībam | praeterībō | praeteriī praeterīvī | praeterieram praeterīveram | praeterierō praeterīverō |
| 2nd sg. | praeterīs | praeterībās | praeterībis | praeterīstī praeteriistī, praeterīvistī | praeterierās praeterīverās | praeterieris praeterīveris |
| 3rd sg. | praeterit | praeterībat | praeterībit praeterīet | praeteriit praeterīvit | praeterierat praeterīverat | praeterierit praeterīverit |
| 1st pl. | praeterīmus | praeterībāmus | praeterībimus | praeteriimus praeterīvimus | praeterierāmus praeterīverāmus | praeterierimus praeterīverimus |
| 2nd pl. | praeterītis | praeterībātis | praeterībitis | praeterīstis praeteriistis, praeterīvistis | praeterierātis praeterīverātis | praeterieritis praeterīveritis |
| 3rd pl. | praetereunt | praeterībant | praeterībunt praeterīent | praeteriērunt praeteriēre, praeterīvērunt, praeterīvēre | praeterierant praeterīverant | praeterierint praeterīverint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | praeteream | praeterīrem | praeterierim praeterīverim | praeterīssem praeteriissem, praeterīvissem |
| 2nd sg. | praetereās | praeterīrēs | praeterierīs praeterīverīs | praeterīssēs praeteriissēs, praeterīvissēs |
| 3rd sg. | praetereat | praeterīret | praeterierit praeterīverit | praeterīsset praeteriisset, praeterīvisset |
| 1st pl. | praetereāmus | praeterīrēmus | praeterierīmus praeterīverīmus | praeterīssēmus praeteriissēmus, praeterīvissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | praetereātis | praeterīrētis | praeterierītis praeterīverītis | praeterīssētis praeteriissētis, praeterīvissētis |
| 3rd pl. | praetereant | praeterīrent | praeterierint praeterīverint | praeterīssent praeteriissent, praeterīvissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | praetereor | praeterībar | praeterībor |
| 2nd sg. | praeterīris praeterīre | praeterībāris praeterībāre | praeterīberis praeterībere |
| 3rd sg. | praeterītur | praeterībātur | praeterībitur |
| 1st pl. | praeterīmur | praeterībāmur | praeterībimur |
| 2nd pl. | praeterīminī | praeterībāminī | praeterībiminī |
| 3rd pl. | praetereuntur | praeterībantur | praeterībuntur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | praeterear | praeterīrer |
| 2nd sg. | praetereāris praetereāre | praeterīrēris praeterīrēre |
| 3rd sg. | praetereātur | praeterīrētur |
| 1st pl. | praetereāmur | praeterīrēmur |
| 2nd pl. | praetereāminī | praeterīrēminī |
| 3rd pl. | praetereantur | praeterīrentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | praeterī | praeterīre |
| pres. 2nd pl. | praeterīte | praeterīminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | praeterītō | praeterītor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | praeterītō | praeterītor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | praeterītōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | praetereuntō | praetereuntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | praeterīre | praeterīrī |
| perfect infinitive | praeterīsse praeteriisse, praeterīvisse | praeteritum esse |
| future infinitive | praeteritūrum esse | praeteritum īrī |
| present participle | praeteriēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | praeteritus praeterita, praeteritā, praeteritae, praeteritam, praeteritārum, praeteritās, praeteritī, praeteritōrum, praeteritōs |
| future participle | praeteritūrus praeteritūra, praeteritūrā, praeteritūrae, praeteritūram, praeteritūrārum, praeteritūrās, praeteritūre, praeteritūrī, praeteritūrīs, praeteritūrō, praeteritūrōrum, praeteritūrōs, praeteritūrum | praetereundus |
gerundpraetereundī, praetereundō, praetereundumsupinepraeteritum, praeteritū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- me non fugit, praeterit
- I am not unaware.
- tempus praeterit, transit
- time passes.
- praeterito anno (not praeterlapso)
- in the past year.
- dixi quasi praeteriens or in transitu
- I said en passant, by the way.
- quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu).
- silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid
- to pass over in silence.
- ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
- amnesty (ἀμνηρτία).
praetĕr-ĕo, īvi, and more freq. ĭi, ĭtum, īre (
I. fut. praeteriet, Vulg. Sap. 1, 8; id. Ecclus. 39, 37; Juvenc. 4, 159), v. n. and a.
I. Neutr.
A. To go by or past, to pass by:
si nemo hac praeteriit, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 15: ut arbitri sint, qui praetereant per vias, id. Merc. 5, 4, 46: praeteriens modo, in passing by, Ter. And. 1, 5, 18: quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, 50; cf. id. Brut. 54, 200: te praetereunte, Juv. 3, 275.—Of impers. and abstract subjects: nec, quae praeteriit, iterum revocabitur unda nec quae praeteriit hora; redire potest, Ov. A. A. 3, 63: nocte hac, quae praeteriit, proxima, Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 3.—So of time: biennium praeteriit cum ille cubitum nullum processerit, Cic. Att. 13, 12, 3: tertius jam praeteriit annus, cum interim, etc., Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 7.—B. To be lost, disregarded, perish, pass away, pass without attention or fulfilment (late Lat.):
aut unus apex non praeteribit de lege, Vulg. Matt. 5, 8: figura hujus mundi, id. 1 Cor. 7, 31; id. Eccl. 1, 4; 7, 1.—II. Act., to go by or past, to pass by, overtake, pass a person or thing.
A. Lit.:
praeterire pistrinum, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27: jam hunc non ausim praeterire, id. As. 3, 4, 15: hortos, Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3: jam hos cursu, jam praeterit illos, Verg. A. 4, 157: Maura Pudicitiae cum praeterit aram, Juv. 6, 308.—Pass.: praeterita est virgo, Ov. M. 10, 680.—Of inanim. subjects: ripas Flumina praetereunt, flow past their banks, Hor. C. 4, 7, 3.—B. Trop.
1. To pass by an evil, to escape a danger:
nescis, quid mali Praeterieris, Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 4.—2. With neutr. adj., or a clause as subject, to escape one, i. e. to escape one's knowledge, be unknown to one:
non me praeterit ... me longius prolapsum esse, Cic. Caecin. 35, 101: sed te non praeterit, quam sit difficile, id. Fam. 1, 8, 2: nec dubitamus multa esse, quae et nos praeterierint, Plin. H. N. praef. § 18.—3. To pass by or over, i. e.
a. To pass over, leave out, omit, not mention:
quae nunc ego omnia praetereo ac relinquo, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 106: ut hoc praeteream, quod, etc., id. ib. 2, 3, 77, § 178: omitto jurisdictionem contra leges, caedes relinquo, libidines praetereo, id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6: et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia, what I had nearly failed to mention, id. Att. 6, 3, 5: aliquid silentio, id. Brut. 22, 88: praeteream, referamne tuum ... Dedecus? Ov. F. 6, 319: ut nihil praeteream, Plin. 2, 98, 101, § 220: ne quid praetereatur, id. 16, 10, 20, § 50.—b. To pass over, omit, make no use of:
locus, qui praeteritus neglegentiā est, Ter. Ad. prol. 14.—c. To pass over, to omit, leave out, in reading or writing, Mart. 13, 3, 8:
litteras non modo, sed syllabas praeterit, Suet. Aug. 88.—d. To neglect or forget to do a thing, to omit, leave out, in action; with inf.:
verum, quod praeterii dicere, neque illa matrem, etc., Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68: quod sciscitari paene praeterivi, App. M. 3, p. 139, 22.—With acc.: nullum genus crudelitatis praeterire, to leave unpractised, Cic. Phil. 3, 2, 4.—Pass.: tantā vi dixisse ut nulla pars orationis silentio praeteriretur, left without applause, Cic. Brut. 22, 88.—e. In elections. legacies, invitations, donations, etc., to pass over, take no notice of, to neglect, reject, exclude any one:
populus solet nonnumquam dignos praeterire: nec, si a populo praeteritus est, etc., Cic. Planc. 3, 8: cum sapiens et bonus vir suffragiis praeteritur, id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54: Philippus et Marcellus praetereuntur, were passed by, received no appointment, Caes. B. C. 1, 6: fratris filium praeteriit, has passed by, bequeathed nothing to, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41: me quoque Romani praeteriere patres, neglected me, forgot me, Ov. F. 5, 312: quid repente factum, Quod sum praeteritus vetus sodalis? Mart. 7, 86, 5: si eum (filium) silentio praeterierit, inutiliter testabitur, Gai. Inst. 2, 123.—f. To go beyond, to surpass, excel:
hos nobilitate Mago Carthaginiensis praeteriit, Varr. R. R. 1, 1: virtus alios tua praeterit omnes, Ov. P. 4, 7, 51: ut Ajax praeteriit Telamonem, Juv. 14, 214.—g. To transgress:
justum praeterit ira modum, due limits, Ov. F. 5, 304. —Hence, A. praetĕrĕunter, adv., in passing, cursorily (eccl. Lat.):
loqui, Aug. Tractat. 118, in Joann.—B. praetĕrĭ-tus, a, um, P. a., gone by, past, past and gone, departed:
nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur, Cic. Sen. 19, 69: aetas, id. ib. 2, 4: anni, Verg. A. 8, 560: nox, Prop 2, 11 (3, 6), 9: culpa, Ov. H. 20, 187: labor, Quint. 10, 7, 4: secula, id. 12, 4, 2: vita, Just. 42, 1: viri, dead and gone, departed, Prop. 2, 10, 52 (3, 5, 36): negotiantes veniā in praeteritum donavit, for the past, for their past conduct, Suet. Dom. 9: praeteritā noc. te, last night, Juv. 10, 235.—In gram.: tempus praeteritum, the past or preterit tense: quaedam verba etiam mutantur, ut fero in praeterito, Quint. 1, 4, 29.—Subst.: prae-tĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things gone by, the past: sevocatus animus a contagione corporis meminit praeteritorum, praesentia cernit, futura praevidet, Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63; id. Fat. 7, 14: monet ut in reliquum tempus omnes suspiciones vitet: praeterita se fratri condonare dicit, Caes. B. G. 1, 20: invidiam praeteritorum contemptu praesentium demere, Just. 21, 5, 10.—Prov.: praeterita mutare non possumus, Cic. Pis. 25, 59 init. —In partic., Praetĕrĭta, ōrum, n., things passed over (Gr. παραλειπόμενα), a name of the books of Chronicles, because they contain what had been omitted in the books of Kings, Hier. Ep. 18, n. 1.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
praeter-eō iī, itus, īre,
to go by, go past, pass by, pass: praeteriens modo, in passing by, T.: quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis: te praetereunte, Iu.: hortos: hos cursu, outstrips, V.: Pudicitiae aram, Iu.: praeterita est virgo, O.: decrescentia ripas Flumina praetereunt, H.—Of time, to pass, go by: biennium praeteriit hora, O.—Fig., to pass by, pass over, leave out, omit, disregard, overlook, neglect: temere alqd, T.: quae nunc ego omnia praetereo: et quod paene praeterii, Bruti tui causā feci omnia: ut pars orationis silentio praeteriretur, i. e. be without applause: praeteream, referamne tuum . . . Dedecus? O.: nullum genus crudelitatis, leave unpractised: praeterire non potui, quin scriberem, could not neglect to write: cum vir suffragiis praeteritur: fratris filium (in a last will): retinuit quosdam Lepidus a collegā praeteritos, i. e. dropped from the roll (of the Senate), L.: Me quoque praeteriere patres, forgot, O.—To escape, avoid: nescis quid mali Praeterieris, T.—To go beyond, outstrip, surpass, excel: virtus alios tua praeterit omnīs, O.: ut Aiax praeteriit Telamonem, Iu.—To overpass, transgress: iustum modum, O.—To escape, be unnoticed by: non me praeterit . . . me prolapsum esse: te non praeterit, quam sit difficile.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*praiteros
- Latinpraetereō
Latin eō Latin praetereō From praeter + eō.
Descendants
- Catalanperterir
- Italianpreterire
- Portuguesepreterir
- Spanishpreterir
- Englishpreterition
- Englishpreterite
In English words that came into English from praetereō
- preteritepraeteritum
- preteritionpraeteritiō
- preterientpraeteriens