Etymograph

English

pretemporal

From pre- + temporal.

Formed from pre- + temporal

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Middle English temporal ‘transitory, worldly, material, of secular…’

English temporal

Today it means

adj Occurring or happening before the existence of time.

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Etymograph / pretemporal