praepositum

praepositum is a Latin form of praepono, meaning “put in front; put in charge of (+acc. and dat.); prefer”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle vocative singular neuter or perfect passive participle accusative singular neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.53: … oniam autem omne, quod est bonum, primum locum tenere dicimus, necesse est nec bonum esse nec malum hoc, quod praepositum vel praecipuum nominamus. idque ita definimus; quod sit indifferens cum aestimatione mediocri; quod enim illi …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.3.4: Praepositum fabricae oblato thorace polito faberrime, praemiumque ideo exspectantem, ea re praecepit occidi diritate pari …

All forms of praepono (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.