P pacatio = payment paene = almost, nearly pagina = page of a book pagus = village; in old Gaelic and Germanic: canton, region/countryside, province, district Palatinus = [from] Pfalz region palatium = palatinate Pampergia = [from] Bamberg panifex = baker [bread maker] papa = pope parens, parentes = parents pariochialis = parochial, parish pariter = equally, also parochia [aka vicarium] = parish. The parish assignments were: pastor/priest [aka parochus], temporary administrator [aka administrator], administrator of local chapel [aka cooperator], (independent) assistant [aka cooperator (expostius)] parochus = parish priest, priest, pastor, the purveyor in the parish pars (partis) = area, region partus = childbirth partus = birth, childbirth parvulus = very little, small parvus = little pastor = pastor, shepherd pastor pecorum = cattle herder paten, patrinus = godfather pater = father pater (patris) = father pater ignotus = father unknown pater illegitimus = illegitimate father pater recte = "correct father " (usage: to correct misspelling of father's name or identify alias? ) patres = forefathers, ancestors patria = homeland, fatherland, native land patrina = godmother patrini = godparents patrinus = godfather patruelis = cousin on father's side patruus = uncle (father's brother) pauper = poor pax (pace) = peace pecora = cattle pecudes = sheep pedegogus = schoolteacher pedes = foot soldier pedestri = on foot/infantries penult = the last but one, next to the last per = through, by means of per subsequens matrimonium legitimatus = legitimized by subsequent marriage per tempore = in this time peregrinus = foreign, strange perendie = day after tomorrow perfecit = he/she completed, did periit = he/she perished, died perillustris dominus = esteemed man peritus = deceased, dead peritus est = he died pictor = painter pie = piously pigator = dyer piger nullius = poor, lazy, idle piscator = fisherman pisoris magister = piso/mortar; magister/chief, head/master, foreman pistor = miller or baker/pastry pius = pious plebius = commoner (as opposed to nobility) plutus = christening, baptized, sprinkled Polonus (Poliensis) = Poland pomerid = afternoon (p.m.) pons (pontis) = bridge popula = people post = after post partum = after birth posterus = following posthumus = born after death of father postridie = on the day after, a day later potater = drinker potuit = could praeceptor = young teacher praedia = [in roman law] piece of land praediolum = a small landed property, small estate praedium = [Prädien in German language; often -mainly on old maps- abbreviated as P. before the name of the location] a landed property, estate, land; a pledge, consisting of land, given by a guarantor in respect of a transaction between another private party and the state; maierhof (manorial farm) of the village. Praedial servitutes imply the existence of two praedia, one of which owes a servitus [praedium] to the other. In late medieval documents praedium designates also a desert village [praedium desertum], similar to uncultivated plain, grassland, stubblefield. Sometimes -as "praedia populosa"- is just designating a village [villa]. Webster's dictionary (ed. 1938): Präedial [adjective] see Predial [adjective; French predial, from Latin praedium = a farm or estate] 1. consisting of land or farms; as, predial estate, that is, real estate 2. attached to land or farms; as predial slaves 3. growing or issuing from land; as predial tithes. The New College Latin to English dictionary: praedium = [noun] estate, farm; collateral consisting of land. praedium urbanum = land (whether in town or country) used principally for building preceptor = teacher, instructor predefunctus = previously deceased (such as before the birth of a child) predictus = aforesaid prefatus = aforesaid prefectus = magistrate praefectus horrei = granary / storehouse overseer pregnata = pregnant premissus = published previously (such as marriage banns) prenobilis = respected, honorable, esteemed presbyter = elder. Elders make up the governing board sometimes called the Session. Ministers can be elders, too. A fully ordained minister in the Methodist Church is called an Elder. presens (presentis) = present, in attendance preter = besides, also, past, beyond pretor = village mayor pridie = the day before primogenitus = first-born child primus = first princeps = prince principatus = principality principis = in the company or division of privigna = stepdaughter privignus = stepson pro = for, in behalf of, as far as proclamationis = banns, decree procurator = lawyer, monastic official progenitus = firstborn proles = issue, child, offspring (gender not given) proles mortua = stillbirth promulgationis = decree, banns promulgato = proclamation prope = near, close to propter = because of, near prout = as, accordingly provisa (f.); provisus (m.) = provided ( usage: "was give the last rites" ) provisa sacramentis = observed the holy sacrament proximus = previous, preceding pudica = chaste, upright pudica virgo = virgin young woman, chaste [clean, decent] virgin puella = [single/not married] girl puer = [single/not married] boy puerperal = mother (i.e., newly-delivered mother) puerperium = childbirth purgatus = baptized, purged, cleansed purgatus = christening puta = reputed, supposed DISEASES paralisis cordis = hart attack paristhmitis = quinsy pemphigus = skin disease of watery blisters pericarditis = inflammation of heart peripneumonia = inflammation of lungs peritonotis = inflammation of abdominal area pestis = plague phraenesis (frenesis) = brain inflammation in infancy? phthiriasis = lice infestation; from Greek "phtheiriasis"; condition of being infected with lice. Synonym: pediculosis phthisis, phtysis = chronic wasting away due to, or a name for, tuberculosis or consumption. See consumption [in the 19th century tuberculosis was also referred to as the "Hungarian disease"] phytosis = disease caused by a vegetable parasite; presence of vegetable parasite; any disease caused by a phytoparasite/phytoparasite/parasite vegetable organism pirexia = hipertermia, fever pleuritis = pleurisy pneumonia = inflammation of the lungs with congestion or consolidation, caused by viruses, bacteria, or physical and chemical agents pneumotyphus = pneumonia & typhus fever? podagra = gout poliomielitis = polio proflurium = diarrhea