probus
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprobus/
Verb
probus
- conditional of probar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *proβwos, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). See also prōsum. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रभु (prabhú, “excellent, foremost, potent”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.bus/, [ˈprɔbʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.bus/, [ˈprɔːbus]
Adjective
probus (feminine proba, neuter probum, comparative probior, superlative probissimus, adverb probē); first/second-declension adjective
- good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able
- (morally) upright, honest, virtuous, moral
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | probus | proba | probum | probī | probae | proba | |
| Genitive | probī | probae | probī | probōrum | probārum | probōrum | |
| Dative | probō | probō | probīs | ||||
| Accusative | probum | probam | probum | probōs | probās | proba | |
| Ablative | probō | probā | probō | probīs | |||
| Vocative | probe | proba | probum | probī | probae | proba | |
Synonyms
- (good): bonus
Derived terms
- approbus
- improbus
- probē
- probitās
- probiter
- reprobus
Related terms
- probābilis
- probābiliter
- probātiō
- probātor
- probātus
- probō
Descendants
- French: probe
- Italian: probo
- → Portuguese: probo
- Sicilian: provu
- → Spanish: probo
References
- “probus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “probus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- probus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- probus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
- I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
- “probus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “probus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray