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語源

From Latin praeludium.

発音

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

名詞

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.