procerus
English
Alternative forms
- procerus nasi
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prōcērus (“high, tall, long”), clipping of mūsculus prōcērus (“tall muscle”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəʊˈsɛə.ɹəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈsɪɹ.əs/
Noun
procerus (plural proceri or proceruses)
- (anatomy) A roughly triangular facial muscle that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and a cartilage in the side of the nose and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead.
- Synonym: (obsolete) pyramidalis nasi
Translations
muscle
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References
- “procerus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “procerus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- croupers, procures
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“toward, forward”) (confer Latin prōvincia) and *ḱer- (“grow”) (confer Latin crescō (“come forth, grow, arise, appear”)). See also Latin sincērus (“genuine, sincere”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːˈkeː.rus/, [proːˈkeːrʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈt͡ʃe.rus/, [proˈt͡ʃɛːrus]
Adjective
prōcērus (feminine prōcēra, neuter prōcērum, comparative prōcērior); first/second-declension adjective
- (literally) high, tall, lofty, long
- Antonym: imprōcērus
- (particularly military) The name of a company of tall soldiers, similar to grenadiers.
- (transferred sense) (in general) long, extended, elongated, large
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prōcērus | prōcēra | prōcērum | prōcērī | prōcērae | prōcēra | |
| Genitive | prōcērī | prōcērae | prōcērī | prōcērōrum | prōcērārum | prōcērōrum | |
| Dative | prōcērō | prōcērō | prōcērīs | ||||
| Accusative | prōcērum | prōcēram | prōcērum | prōcērōs | prōcērās | prōcēra | |
| Ablative | prōcērō | prōcērā | prōcērō | prōcērīs | |||
| Vocative | prōcēre | prōcēra | prōcērum | prōcērī | prōcērae | prōcēra | |
Derived terms
- imprōcērus
- prōcērē
- prōcēritās
- prōcēritūdō
- prōcērulus
Descendants
Descendants of procerus in other languages
- → English: procerus
- → Italian: procero
- → Portuguese: procero
- → Spanish: procero
References
- “procerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “procerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procerus 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)
- procerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette