prerogative: [14] Latin praerogāre meant ‘a(chǎn)sk before others’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and rogāre ‘a(chǎn)sk’, 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).
雙語例句
1. In many countries education is still the prerogative of the rich.
在許多國家接受教育仍然是富人的特權(quán)。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. Making such decisions is not the sole prerogative of managers.
作這類決定并不是管理者的專有特權(quán).
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. It is within his prerogative to do so.
他是有權(quán)這樣做的.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. Constitutional changes are exclusively the prerogative of the parliament.
修改憲法是議會獨(dú)有的權(quán)力。
來自辭典例句
5. It is your prerogative to stop seeing that particular therapist and find another one.