Etymology

prelature

P3R1E1L1A1T1U1R1E1

Today it means: prelates in general Full definition →

French prélature ← Latin praelātūra
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived frompraelātūra
  2. French · borrowed fromprélature
  3. English todayprelature

From both French prélature and post-Classical Latin praelātūra.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.