Latin

Noun

praefectūra f ‎(genitive praefectūrae); first declension

1. presidency, superintendence, prefecture

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• praeficio

Descendants

• English: prefecture
• Russian: префектура ‎(prefektura)

References

• praefectura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• praefectura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PRAEFECTURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “praefectura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• praefectura in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• praefectura in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin