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praecŏquus, a, um, v. praecox.

praecox, cŏcis, also praecŏquis, e, and praecŏquus, a, um, adj. [praecoquo], ripe before its time, early ripe, rareripe, premature, precocious (syn. praematurus).

  1. I. Lit.: allium praecox, Plin. 19, 6, 34, § 112: rosa, id. 21, 4, 10, § 19: germinationes, id. 17, 2, 2, § 16: pira, Col. 5, 10: vites praecoquis fructus, id. 3, 2: ex unā praecoque vite, id. 3, 9: uvas praecoquas legere, id. 12, 37: arbores, bearing fruit before their time, Plin. 16, 27, 50, § 114: quando jam praecoquae uvae vesci possunt, when the earliest grapes are ripe, Vulg. Num. 13, 21.
    1. B. Transf.: loca, and subst.: prae-cŏcĭa, ĭum, n., places where fruits ripen early, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 79; 18, 24, 54, § 197.
  2. II. Trop., over-hasty, premature, precocious, untimely (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.): pugna, Enn. ap. Non. 150, 16 (Ann. v. 282): ingeniorum velut praecox genus, Quint. 1, 3, 3: risus praecox, Plin. 7 prooem. 1, § 2: audacia, i. e. of a boy, Sen. Brev. Vit. 6: fuga, Lucil. ap. Non. 150, 17; Varr. ap. ib. 157, 3: praecoquis libido, Nov. ap. ib. 150, 18; Afran. ap. Gell. 10, 11, 9.
    * Adv.: praecŏquē, prematurely, etc.: properans, Auct. Itin. Alex. 38 Mai.