prove

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Alternative spellings 1.1.3 Verb 1.1.3.1 Derived terms 1.1.3.2 Related terms 1.1.3.3 Translations 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Verb 1.3 External links 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

< Middle English prove < Old French prover (compare French prouver) < Latin probare (“‘to test, try, examine, approve, show to be good or fit, prove’”) < probus (“‘good, excellent’”). Cf. probe, probity, proof etc., and cf. approve, disprove, improve, reprove etc., approbate, reprobate etc., approbation, probation.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹuːv/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -uːv

[edit] Alternative spellings

• proove

[edit] Verb

to prove (third-person singular simple present proves, present participle proving, simple past proved, past participle proved or proven)

1. (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.

   I will prove my method is more effective than yours.

   The hypothesis has not been proven to our satisfaction.

2. (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

   It proved to be a cold day.

3. (copulative) To turn out to be.

   Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.

4. (transitive) To (put to the) test, proof
5. (archaic) To experience

[edit] Derived terms

disprovability disprovable, disprovably disprove disproved, disproven provability provable provably

prove out prover proving ground unprovability unprovable unprovably unprove unproved unproven

[edit] Related terms

• approve
• probe
• probity
• proof

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

Simple past form of proove, conjugated in the Germanic strong declension, on the pattern of choose → chose.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /pɹəʊv/

[edit] Verb

prove

1. Simple past of proove.

[edit] External links

• prove in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prove in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

prove (plural proven, diminutive provetje)

1. A gift out of love
2. A life-long maintenance

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

prove f.

1. Plural form of prova.