FromOld Frenchpresider, fromLatinpraesidēre(“preside”), frompre-(“before”) +sedere(“to sit”). DisplacedOld Englishforesittan, which might have been acalque of the Latin.
preside (third-person singular simple presentpresides,present participlepresiding,simple past and past participlepresided)
- (intransitive) To act aspresident orchairperson.
- (intransitive) To exerciseauthority orcontrol.
- Synonym:oversit
1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, inRailway Magazine, page283:When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient departmentpresided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures.
- (intransitive, music) To be afeaturedsoloperformer.
to act as a president or chairperson
Translations to be checked
preside m orfby sense (pluralpresidi)
- (education)headmaster/headmistress,headteacher,schoolmaster
- (education)dean,principal
- preside inCollins Italian-English Dictionary
- preside in Aldo Gabrielli,Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- preside in garzantilinguistica.it –Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- preside inDizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- preside in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
preside
- inflection ofpresidir:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
- IPA(key): /pɾeˈside/[pɾeˈsi.ð̞e]
- Rhymes:-ide
- Syllabification:pre‧si‧de
preside
- inflection ofpresidir:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
