Significatio vocis prooemium | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a preface, introduction, prelude
   declension-2, neuter
2. a beginning
   declension-2, neuter, poetic

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Similiter etiam proœmium antiqviſſimi libri LANDNAMÆ: Sed anteqvam Islandia habitari (a Norvegis) cœpit, viri illic erant, qvos Norvegi Papas appellant.”

Similarly, the preface to the most ancient book, the Landnámabók, states that before Iceland was settled by the Norwegians, there were men there whom the Norwegians call Papas.

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