Prefatory

Adjective

 * 1) introductory, preliminary, serving as a prelude or preface.

Thesaurus
antecedent, anterior, chief, exordial, first, foremost, headmost, inaugural, inductive, initiatory, introductory, leading, opening, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, prefixed, prelim, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, preparatory, prepositive, prevenient, prior, proemial, propaedeutic

Etymology
1670s, from *undefined:, from  prefatia: (whence preface:), for classical  praefatio: – see preface: for details.

Note that this is borrowed from Latin, not derived in English from preface:, as in occasional misspelling *undefined:.

Translations

 * Bengali: পরিচায়ক


 * Finnish:, alku-