prandium

• Might be from earlier *prāmdeyom < *prāmo-deyom, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃mós (“first”) (from *preh₃-, whence prō) and zero-grade *h₁ed- (“to eat”) (whence edō). Thus originally "first meal". Compare Ancient Greek ἄριστον (áriston).[1]
• Others see it as *pram (“all”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per-) + edere (“to eat”). See also prandeō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpran.di.um/, [ˈpran.di.ʊ̃]

prandium n (genitive prandiī or prandī); second declension

1. late breakfast
2. luncheon
3. (poetic) any meal

   Nullum gratuitum prandium

   No free lunch

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• prandeō
• prandicolum
• prandiolum

• pransitō
• pransor
• pransōrius

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