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PROLEGOMENA

Definition: PROLEGOMENA

PROLEGOMENA

Plural

1. Of Prolegomenon

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PROLEGOMENA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Synonyms within Context: PROLEGOMENA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Precursor

Prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation; overture, exordium, symphony; premises.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PROLEGOMENA

Specialty definitions using "PROLEGOMENA": Homer's Critics. (references)
Etymologies containing "PROLEGOMENA": Prolegomenon. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PROLEGOMENA

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Arab Philosophy of History: Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (reference)

  • Jesus's audience: the social and psychological environment in which He worked; prolegomena to a restatement of the teaching of Jesus. Lectures at Newquay, 1971 (reference)

  • Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (reference)

  • Prolegomena to the Study of Roman Art = Expanded from 'Prolegomena to a Book on Roman Art' (reference)

  • The Beginnings of Christianity: The Acts of the Apostles: Volume I: Prolegomena I; The Jewish, Gentile and Christian Backgrounds (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PROLEGOMENA

"PROLEGOMENA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PROLEGOMENA" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PROLEGOMENA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

prolegomena

15

kant prolegomena

2

history israel prolegomena

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PROLEGOMENA

Language Translations for "PROLEGOMENA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

hyrje (access, accession, adit, aisle, barrier, door, entrance, entry, front door, gate, gateway, hall, hallway, incoming, induction, inflow, inflowing, ingoing, ingress, inlet, input, intake, intromission, lead in, opening, porch, portal, preamble, preface, prelude, proem, prologue, throat). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مقدمات نقدية, ‏معلومات تمهيدية, ‏تمهيد (introduction, preamble, preapprehension, preface). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уводни бележки (preface), увод (exordium, introduction, lead up, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prelusion, prodrome, proem, prolusion). (various references)

   

French

  

prolégomènes. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bevezetõ (exordial, initiative, introductory, lead in, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, prelusive, prolog, prologue, propaedeutic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olegomenapray

   

Portuguese

  

prolegómenos. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prolegomene. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

введение (injection, introduction, lead in, lead up, primer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

predhodne napomene, predgovor (foreword, preamble, preface). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pl. de prolegomenon. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inledning (commencement, initiation, introduction, opening, preamble, prelude, run in, runup), företal (foreword, preface, proem). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

önsöz (exordium, foreword, introduction, preamble, preface, proem, prolog, prologue). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пролегомени. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: PROLEGOMENA

Misspellings

"PROLEGOMENA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paralipomena, praenomen, prolegmena. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PROLEGOMENA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-m-n-o-o-p-r"

-2 letters: lampooner.

-3 letters: peroneal, prolonge.

-4 letters: aerogel, almoner, empaler, empanel, emplane, enlarge, erelong, general, germane, gleamer, gleaner, gleeman, glomera, gomeral, gomerel, grapnel, lampoon, legroom, mangler, manrope, marengo, melange, mongrel, moorage, oenomel, oregano, parolee, peonage, pergola, polaron, pregame, premeal, prename, prolong, rampole, repanel.

-5 letters: almner, ampere, ampler, angler, apogee, apolog, areole, eloper, empale, enamel, enamor, engram.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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