antecenium

ante- (“before”) +‎ cēna (“meal, dinner”) +‎ -ium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [an.tɛˈkeː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪.t̪eˈt͡ʃɛː.ni.um]

antecēnium n (genitive antecēniī or antecēnī); second declension

1. a meal taken before the principal meal, a lunch, luncheon

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• cēnō

• “antecenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antecenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.