prerogative: [14] Latin praerogāre meant ‘ask before others’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and rogāre ‘ask’, source also of English interrogate [15]). The term praerogātīva (based on its past participle) was applied to those electoral groups who were ‘invited before others’ to vote, or in other words had the privilege of voting first, in elections for state officials. Hence the word (acquired by English via Old French prerogative) came to mean in general ‘right to precedence, privilege’. => arrogant, interrogate
prerogative (n.)
"special right or privilege granted to someone," late 14c. (in Anglo-Latin from late 13c.), from Old French prerogative (14c.), Medieval Latin prerogativa "special right," from Latin praerogativa "prerogative, previous choice or election," originally (with tribus, centuria) "unit of 100 voters who by lot voted first in the Roman comita," noun use of fem. of praerogativus (adj.) "chosen to vote first," from praerogere "ask before others," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + rogare "to ask" (see rogation).
双语例句
1. In many countries education is still the prerogative of the rich.
在许多国家接受教育仍然是富人的特权。
来自《权威词典》
2. Making such decisions is not the sole prerogative of managers.
作这类决定并不是管理者的专有特权.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. It is within his prerogative to do so.
他是有权这样做的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. Constitutional changes are exclusively the prerogative of the parliament.
修改宪法是议会独有的权力。
来自辞典例句
5. It is your prerogative to stop seeing that particular therapist and find another one.
