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Yes. The word prior is a Scrabble US word. The word prior is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word prior is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

PRIOR,

3-letter words (4 found)

PIR,POI,PRO,RIP,

2-letter words (6 found)

IO,OI,OP,OR,PI,PO,

You can make 11 words from prior according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of prior

prior

Alternative forms

  • priour (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹaɪ.ə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹaɪ.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Latin prior, comparative of Old Latin *pri (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond”), *pró (“before”). Parallel to English former, as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root, whence also fore (thence before).

Adjective

prior (not comparable)

  1. Advance; previous; coming before.
  2. Former, previous.
Usage notes
  • The etymological antonym is ulterior (from Latin; compare primate/ultimate for “first/last”). This is now no longer used, however, and there is no corresponding antonym. Typically either subsequent or posterior is used, but these form different pairs – precedent/subsequent and anterior/posterior – and are more formal than prior. When an opposing pair is needed, these can be used, or other pairs such as former/latter or previous/next.
Synonyms
  • anterior
  • See also Thesaurus:former
Antonyms
  • posterior
Derived terms
Related terms
  • priority
Translations

Adverb

prior (comparative more prior, superlative most prior)

  1. (colloquial) Previously.
    Synonyms: ago, hitherto
Translations

Noun

prior (plural priors)

  1. (US, law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. [from 19th c.]
  2. (statistics, Bayesian inference) A prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected. [from 20th c.]
    Coordinate term: posterior
  3. (rationalist community, by extension) A belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
Derived terms
  • update one's priors
  • revise one's priors
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English priour, prior, from Old English prior, Old French prior, and their etymon Latin prior.

Noun

prior (plural priors)

  1. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
  2. (historical) A chief magistrate in Italy.
Synonyms
  • (second-in-command to an abbot): provost
Derived terms
Related terms
  • priory
Translations

References

  • “prior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin priōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾiˈo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [pɾiˈoɾ]

Noun

prior m (plural priors, feminine priora)

  1. prior (a high-ranking member of a monastery)

Related terms

  • priorat
  • prioritat

Further reading

  • “prior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “prior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “prior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “prior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *priōs, from earlier *prijōs, from *pri + *-jōs, thus the comparative degree of Old Latin *pri (“before”), from Proto-Italic *pri from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond”), *pró (“before”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpri.or/, [ˈpriɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpri.or/, [ˈpriːor]

Adjective

prior (neuter prius, superlative prīmus); third-declension comparative adjective

  1. former, prior, previous, earlier (preceding in time)
    priore anno ― the year before, the previous year; during the year before
    priore aestate ― the previous summer
    priore nocte ― the previous night
  2. the first, the original
  3. in front
  4. (figuratively) better, superior
  5. (substantive, Medieval Latin) abbot, prior

Usage notes

  • This adjective has no positive form; rather, it serves as the comparative (prior) and superlative (prīmus) of the preposition prae. (Compare the preposition post, with comparative posterior and superlative postremus).

Declension

  • Third-declension comparative adjective.

Derived terms

  • ā priōrī
  • priōrēs
  • prius
  • priusquam

Related terms

  • prīmus

Descendants

  • → Catalan: prior
  • → Czech: převor
  • → Dutch: prior
  • → English: prior
  • → Finnish: priori
  • → French: prieur
  • → Irish: prióir
  • → Galician: prior
  • → Italian: priore
  • → Middle High German: prior
    • German: Prior
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: priori
  • → Polish: przeor
  • → Romanian: prior
  • → Russian: приор (prior)
  • → Spanish: prior
  • → Portuguese: prior

References

  • “prior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “prior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • prior in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • prior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[5], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin prior.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾjoɾ/ [ˈpɾjoɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: prior

Noun

prior m (plural priores, feminine priora, feminine plural prioras)

  1. prior (a high-ranking member of a monastery)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “prior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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