Pretorius

[ pri-tawr-ee-uhs, -tohr-; Dutch prey-toh-ree-oos ]

noun

1. An·dries Wil·hel·mus Ja·co·bus [ahn, -d, r, ees vil-, hel, -m, oo, s yah-, kaw, -b, oo, s], 1799–1853, and his son Mar·thi·nus Wes·sels [mah, r, -, tee, -n, oo, s-, ves, -, uh, ls], 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.

Pretorius

/ prɪˈtɔːrɪəs /

noun

1. PretoriusAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus17991853MSouth AfricanPOLITICS: Boer leader Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus (ˈɑndriːs wɪlˈhɛlmys jaːˈkoːbys). 1799–1853, a Boer leader in the Great Trek (1838) to escape British sovereignty; he also led an expedition to the Transvaal (1848). The town Pretoria was named after him
2. PretoriusMarthinus Wessels18191901MSouth AfricanPOLITICS: head of state his son, Marthinus Wessels (marˈtiːnys ˈwɛsəls). 1819–1901, first president of the South African Republic (1857–71) and of the Orange Free State (1859–63)

Example Sentences

Pretorius suspects that SARS-CoV-2’s infamous spike protein interacts with the fibrinogen protein and causes it to change its shape.

From Scientific American

The new findings are “very exciting,” says Resia Pretorius, a physiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

From Scientific American

"It's very depressing. It's very concerning. Our country is in a serious, dark place," said Paul Pretorius, a lawyer who played a key role at a recent public inquiry into the state corruption that flourished under former President Jacob Zuma.

From BBC

The rejiggered equations split four-dimensional space-time into slices of three-dimensional space, an innovation that allowed computers to handle the complex data and, as Frans Pretorius, a professor of physics at Princeton University, put it, “evolve these slices in time to find the full solution.”

From New York Times

The months of February and March were tense for Aretha Pretorius.

From BBC