prologue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who delivers a prologue.

   And hither am I come, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;.

From Middle English prologue, prologe, from Old French prologue, from Latin prologus, from Ancient Greek πρόλογος (prólogos). Equivalent to pro- + -logue.

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