preludium

• praeludium, præludium (obsolete)

From Latin praeludium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈluːdiəm/, /-ˈljuːdiəm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəˈluːdiəm/

preludium (plural preludiums or preludia)

1. (now rare) prelude, portent
   • 1563, Iohn Foxe, “Book 5”, in Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] ‎, London: Iohn Day, page 1006:

     […] and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhoꝛte pꝛæludium.

   • 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:

     Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium. […]

   • 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, “Book XIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 445:

     This Menelaus knows, expos'd to ſhare / With me the rough Preludium of the War.

Probably from Latin praeludium

preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludier, definite plural preludia or preludiene)

1. (music) a prelude

• “preludium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Probably from Latin praeludium

preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludium, definite plural preludia)

1. (music) a prelude

• “preludium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Präludium, from Italian preludio, from Latin prae-ludo.

• IPA^(key): /prɛˈlu.djum/

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• Rhymes: -udjum
• Syllabification: pre‧lu‧dium

preludium n

1. (music) prelude (short, free-form piece of music, serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece)
2. (music) prelude (short, stand-alone piece of music)
3. prelude (introductory or preliminary performance or event)

• preludium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• preludium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin praeludium, cognate with German Präludium, based on praeludere, used in Swedish since 1734 (or perhaps 1615).

preludium n

1. a prelude, an opening, an introduction (in music and literature)
2. a preparation, a sign of things to come

   Såsom ett preludium till jul ingår ju första adventssöndagen.

   As a prelude to Christmas comes the first Sunday of Advent.

• förspel
• upptakt

• preludiera
• preludiespel

• preludium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• preludium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)