The story
- Latin · derived from-ium
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*pr̥h₃mós“first”
- Latin · borrowed fromprandium“late breakfast; lunch”
- Late Latin · borrowed fromprandialis
- English todayprandial
Borrowed from Late Latin prandialis, or Latin prandium (“late breakfast; lunch”) + English -al (suffix forming adjectives). Prandium is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃mós (“first”) (from *preh₃-) + *h₁ed- (“to eat”) + Latin -ium (suffix forming nouns).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.