prior是什么意思（prior的用法）

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一、prior是什么意思

1、prior 先前的，优先的，小隐修院院长

2、来自拉丁语prior,先前的，领先的，来自古拉丁语pri,在前，先于，来自PIE*per,向前，词源同ford,first.-or,比较级后缀。后用于小隐修院院长尊称。

二、prior的用法

1、prior

2、prior: Prior the ecclesiastical rank [11] and prior ‘previous’ [18] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Latin prior ‘former, superior’, a comparative formation based on the Old Latin preposition pri ‘before’. This came in postclassical times to be used as a noun meaning ‘superior officer, administrator’, and it was taken over as such into the terminology of the monastic foundations.

3、prior (adj.)

4、"earlier," 1714, from Latin prior "former, previous, first;" figuratively "superior, better;" as a noun "forefather; superior rank;" comparative of Old Latin pri "before," from PIE *prai-, *prei-, from root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).

5、prior (n.)

6、"superior officer of a religious house or order," late Old English, from Medieval Latin prior "superior officer," noun use of Latin adjective meaning "former, superior" (see prior (adj.)). As short for prior arrest, by 1990, American English.

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