foreword

Senso (Inglese)

An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; especially, one written by another person (not the author of the work thus introduced).

Concetti

prefazione

proemio

introduzione

prolago

isagoge

avvertimento

⚠️

prolusione

Opposto di

afterword, epilogue, endsay, conclusion, last word, postamble, foreword

sinonimi

preface

introduction

prologue

preamble

prolusion

opening

exordium

prefatory note

postscript

premise

proem

prolegomenon

opening statement

Traduzioni

Vorwort

préface

Vorrede

voorwoord

avant-propos

prefácio

Geleitwort

prefacio

prólogo

voorbericht

Einleitung

voorrede

Einführung

πρόλογος

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈfɔːwɜːd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine olandese: voorwoord

Affine frisone occidentale: foarwurd

Affine danese: forord

Affine svedese: förord

Affine inglese antico: forword

In summary

Morphologically fore- + word. Calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio (“preface”). Cognate with German Low German Vörwoord (“foreword”), Dutch voorwoord (“foreword”), West Frisian foarwurd (“foreword”), Danish forord (“preface; proviso”), Swedish förord (“foreword”). Compare also Old English forword, foreword (“proviso; condition”).