propius

Latin

Etymology

Comparative of prope, as prope +‎ -ius.

Adverb

propius (comparative)

1. comparative degree of prope (“nearly, more nearly, nearer, closer, almost”)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.526:

     “Parce piō generī, et propius rēs aspice nostrās.”

     “Spare a pious race, and look more closely at our plight.”

Related terms

• propior
• proximē

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: procho
• Old French: proche
  • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: preuche
  • French: proche
    • →? Occitan: pròche, pròchi

References

• “propius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “propius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “propius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
    
  • to advance nearer to the city: propius accedere ad urbem or urbem
    
  • to approach the gods: propius ad deos accedere (Mil. 22. 59)