prope
Latin
Etymology
From Oscan (expected *proque, -que being replaced with Oscan -𐌐𐌄 (-pe)), from Proto-Indo-European *prokʷe, from *pro- + *-kʷe (equivalent to pro + -que).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.pe/, [ˈprɔpɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.pe/, [ˈprɔːpe]
Adverb
prope (comparative propius, superlative proximē or proxumus)
- near, nearby, nigh, close
- close in time
- almost, nearly
- Synonyms: paene, fermē, ferē, iū̆xtā
- better (as an approximation)
Preposition
prope (+ accusative)
- near
- Domus mea prope lacum est.
- My house is near the lake.
- Domus mea prope lacum est.
- (figuratively) towards, about (in time)
Derived terms
- *adprope
- propiō
- propior
- proximus
- propinquus
- propitius
- propter
Descendants
- North Italian:
- Piedmontese: preuv, pré (Piverone)
- Lombard: preuf
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: prof, pruf, preu, pruef
- → Old Italian: pruovo
- ⇒ Norman: promais que (the "pro-" part)
- Old French: prof, pruf, preu, pruef
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: prop
- Occitan: prop ⇒ prèp (influenced by près)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *propeānus
- Old French: prochain
- French: prochain
- Sardinian: probianu
- Old French: prochain
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 353: “accanto” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 815
- https://www.rew-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?id_entry=48366
- https://locongres.org/oc/aplicacions/dicodoc-oc/
Further reading
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- to be almost culpable: prope abesse a culpa
- to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- “prope”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prope”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prope 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)
- prope in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette