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#206644 - 08/12/12 05:24 PM not precocious at all
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	My hubby had a question that I couldn't answer at all so I figured I'd come to the experts. Was there ever a cocious root to the word precocious. I mean, if precocious is developementally avanced compared to children of the same age, was there a word cocious that meant a child was developping at exactly at the same level as others his age?
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#206645 - 08/12/12 06:53 PM Re: not precocious at all [Re: belMarduk]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3268 Loc: R'lyeh	Precocious comes from Latin praecox 'premature, ripe before its time, precocious'.The root after the prae- prefix is is the same one that gives us cook. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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