prognariter

Latin

Alternative forms

• praegnāviter (alternative manuscript reading)

Etymology

From unattested *prōgnārus + -ter or prō- +‎ gnārus +‎ -ter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proːŋˈnaː.rɪ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proɲˈɲaː.ri.ter]

Adverb

prōgnāriter (comparative prōgnārius, superlative prōgnārissimē) (Old Latin, very rare)

1. very skilfully, very expertly
   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 6.200–202:

     divi hoc audite parumper,
     Ut pro Romano populo prognariter armis
     Certando prudens animam de corpore mitto.

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2. decisively, definitely
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 4.4.39–40:

     Vin bene emere? — Vin tu pulchre vendere?
     — Ego scio hercle utrumque velle. —— Age, indica prognariter.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 150:

     PRAEGNAVITER, strenue, fortiter et constanter. Plautus Persa:
     'ego scio hercle utrumque belle.' — 'age, indica praegnaviter.'

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “prognariter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prognariter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.