probus

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprobus/

Verb

probus

1. 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.bus]

Adjective

probus (feminine proba, neuter probum, comparative probior, superlative probissimus, adverb probē); first/second-declension adjective

1. good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able
2. (morally) upright, honest, virtuous, moral, proven

   Puer probus patrī oboedit

   A virtuous boy obeys his father

   • Plautus, Trinummus, 320-321.

     is probus est quem paenitet quam probus sit et frugi bonae

     The good man is discontent with how decent and how worthy he may be.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	probus	proba	probum		probī	probae	proba
genitive	probī	probae	probī		probōrum	probārum	probōrum
dative	probō	probae	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 (semi-learned)
• → 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
    
• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray