praerogatio

From praerogō (“ask first; pay in advance”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /prae̯.roˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [präe̯rɔˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.roˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [preroˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

praerogātiō f (genitive praerogātiōnis); third declension

1. A distributing beforehand.
2. A vote, decision or verdict beforehand.

Third-declension noun.

• “praerogatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praerogatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.