preparation

English

/pɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/

noun
Definitions
  • (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
  • (uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.
  • (countable) That which is prepared.
  • (Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
  • Devotional exercises introducing an office.
  • (music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French préparation derived from Latin praeparatio, praeparationem (preparation) root from Proto-Indo-European *per- (risk, bring forth, fare, through, try, go, traverse, across, carry forth, bring forward, produce, procure, forth, before, attempt, over, go over, pass through, go through, beyond, research, bear, forward, penetrate, put across, sell, lead across, front, formerly, dare, throughout, ferry, cross, transfer, pierce, strike, a going, peril, first, beat, out, passage, of, bring carry over, pass, next, in front).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*per-

Gloss

risk, bring forth, fare, through, try, go, traverse, across, carry forth, bring forward, produce, procure, forth, before, attempt, over, go over, pass through, go through, beyond, research, bear, forward, penetrate, put across, sell, lead across, front, formerly, dare, throughout, ferry, cross, transfer, pierce, strike, a going, peril, first, beat, out, passage, of, bring carry over, pass, next, in front

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