praecipiemus

Praecipiemus is a Latin verb form, the first-person plural future indicative active of the verb praecipio. The verb praecipio belongs to the 3rd IO conjugation and means roughly “to order beforehand, to instruct, to entrust (to someone) in advance.” The form praecipiemus is built from the stem praecipie- plus the personal ending -mus, following the pattern of other 3rd IO verbs.

In standard Latin morphology, the future indicative of praecipio is praecipiam, praecipies, praecipiet, praecipiemus, praecipietis, praecipient. Thus praecipiemus corresponds to “we shall instruct/command/arrange beforehand.” The sense is determined by the related meanings of praecipio, which derive from the prefix prae- (“before”) combined with the root cip- (related to capere, “to seize/take”).

Praecipiemus can appear in a variety of contexts where a speaker foresees or orders future action; the exact nuance ranges from instruction to prescriptive ordering to more general “pre-emptive” action, depending on the text.

See also: praecipio, 3rd IO verbs, Latin verb conjugation.