precoce

Borrowing from French précoce.

precoce (comparative more precoce, superlative most precoce)

1. (obsolete) precocious

• “precoce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

precoce

1. inflection of precocer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

precoce (not comparable)

1. precocious, precoce

Borrowed from Latin praecox. Doublet of albicocca.

• IPA^(key): /preˈkɔ.t͡ʃe/, /preˈko.t͡ʃe/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔtʃe, -otʃe
• Hyphenation: pre‧cò‧ce, pre‧có‧ce

precoce m or f (plural precoci, superlative precocissimo)

1. premature, untimely
2. hasty
3. precocious, early

• precocemente
• precocia
• precocità
• precocizzante

• precoce in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Learned borrowing from Latin praecox. Doublet of abricó.

precoce m or f (plural precoces)

1. precocious (characterised by exceptionally early occurrence or development)
2. early, early-stage

   sinais de alerta precoces.

   early warning signs

• “precoce” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Latin praecocem, or via French précoce, itself borrowed from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /preˈko.t͡ʃe/

precoce m or f or n (masculine plural precoci, feminine and neuter plural precoce)

1. precocious

• “precoce”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025