From prae + via (“road; way”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprae̯.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛː.vi.us]

praevius (feminine praevia, neuter praevium); first/second-declension adjective

1. going before, leading the way, precedes

First/second-declension adjective.

• via

• “praevius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praevius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "praevius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “praevius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.