Other forms: prepositions
A preposition is a small word showing position or relation. Ends with a preposition, the wrong preposition, learn the prepositions.
They are the hardest part of any language to learn, since which one goes with which verb is arbitrary and must be memorised one at a time. The old rule against ending a sentence with a preposition was invented and never held.
1nounprepositionA small word showing position or relation, such as in or under.
“Should I say "at the weekend" or "on the weekend"? I always get this preposition wrong.”
preposition is a word.
Latin praepositio means a placing before, from prae plus ponere, to place.
Proto-Indo-European
*tḱey-
Latin
praepositio
Old French
preposicion
Middle English
preposicioun
English, today
preposition
Built from
From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, from praepono (“to place before”), equivalent to pre + position. Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA