praevinctus

Perfect passive participle of praevinciō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /prae̯ˈu̯iːnk.tus/, [präe̯ˈu̯iːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /preˈvink.tus/, [preˈviŋkt̪us]

praevīnctus (feminine praevīncta, neuter praevīnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been bound in front; having been fettered
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.10.2:

     Id cum accideret in dies crebrius neque animis earum mori perseverantium medicina adhiberi quiret, decrevisse Milesios ut virgines quae corporibus suspensis demortuae forent, ut hae omnes nudae, cum eodem laqueo quo essent praevinctae efferrentur.

     • Translation by John C. Rolfe

       When this happened more frequently every day, and no remedy had any effect on their resolve to die, the Milesians passed a decree that all those maidens who committed suicide by hanging should be carried to the grave naked, along with the same rope by which they had destroyed themselves.

   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.2.3:

     Istae autem voluptates duae gustus atque tactus, id est libidines in cibos atque in Venerem prodigae, solae sunt hominibus communes cum beluis et idcirco in pecudum ferorumque animalium numero habetur, quisquis est his ferinis voluptatibus praevinctus;

     • Translation by John C. Rolfe

       But those two pleasures of taste and touch, namely, gluttony and venery, are the only ones common to man with the lower animals, and therefore whoever is enslaved to these beastly pleasures is regarded as in the number of brutes and beasts;

First/second-declension adjective.