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From Latin prae (“in front of”); see pre-.

pre

1. Before (something significant).

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pre.

• pre-existing

Clippings.

pre (uncountable)

1. (slang, in the plural) Clipping of predrinks.
   • 2022 February 28, Malou Baumann, “A round-up of all the best drinking games”, in The Tab‎, archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

     This one's for a short and sweet pres before heading to the club. If you're aiming to get absolutely SMASHED in a short amount of time, this is the game for you!

2. (slang) Clipping of precum.
3. (slang) Clipping of preparty.
   • 2007 September 21, Ubaldi, Nina, “Lose the hype and formals can be fun”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎:

     The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets... After the pres, the night mirrors the increasing pain of high heels as they go from shiny and exciting to plain uncomfortable.

pre (third-person singular simple present pres, present participle preing, simple past and past participle pred or preed)

1. (slang) Clipping of pre-drink.
   • 2017 May 26, Paige McPhee, “13 Toronto Staycations For The Ultimate Girls Weekend”, in Narcity‎, archived from the original on 2021-10-23:

     This view alone is reason enough to book up this place for a girl's weekend. Imagine preing outside the city lights, playing the Lemonade visual album full blast on Apple TV.

   • 2022 February 28, Malou Baumann, “A round-up of all the best drinking games”, in The Tab‎, archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

     It's your average Saturday night and you're preing with your mates so you won't have to waste tonnes of money in some average bar. No one can come up with a good drinking game, so you just resort to the classics: Beer Pong and Ring of Fire.

   • 2022 November 10, Myfanwy Fleming-Jones, “Manchester Student Fight Night – All you need to know!”, in The Mancunion‎, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

     Fight Night, one of the most notorious student nights of the year, returns this month. Getting dressed up with your friends, preing way too hard, and finally Ubering to the AO Arena where the hip flask you smuggled in definitely comes in handy.

2. (slang) Clipping of precum.

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, Rep, Rep., per, per-, per., rep

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin praeda.

pre f

1. prey
2. quarry

• viktimë

pre

1. hail

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

• prȉje (Ijekavian)

• IPA^(key): /prê/

prȅ (Cyrillic spelling пре̏)

1. before, earlier

prȅ (Cyrillic spelling пре̏) (+ genitive case)

1. before
2. ago

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾe/ [ˈpɾe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: pre

pre m (plural pres)

1. (obsolete) loan

• estar a pre

• “pre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Italic *prai. Cognate with Latin prae.

pre

1. (followed by ablative) before; in front of

   Antonym: post

   • early 2^nd century BCE, Iguvine Tablets, table I, side A (photo; facsimile), lines 2–3:

     ² [...] 𐌐𐌓𐌄𐌅𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔:​𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔:​ ³ 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄:​𐌊𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌖𐌅𐌉:​𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌁𐌖𐌚:​𐌚𐌄𐌕𐌖:​ [...]

     preveres treplanes iuve krapuvi tre buf fetu

     In front of the Trebulan gate sacrifice three oxen to Jupiter Grabovius.

• e.Ig. 𐌐𐌓𐌄 (pre)
  l.Ig. pre

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “prae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 485–487
• Buck, Carl Darling (1904), “pre”, in A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 343
• Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “pre”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 40

pre

1. Late Iguvine form of pre

pre

1. Romanization of 𐌐𐌓𐌄