probus

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprobus/

Verb

(deprecated template usage) probus

1. conditional of probar

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Indo-European *probʰwo- (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). See also prōsum. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रभु (prabhu, “excellent, foremost, potent”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.bus/, [ˈprɔbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.bus/, [ˈprɔːbus]

Adjective

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	probus	proba	probum		probī	probae	proba
Genitive	probī	probae	probī		probōrum	probārum	probōrum
Dative	probō		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
• probō
• reprobus

Related terms

• probābilis
• probābiliter
• probātiō
• probātor
• probātus

 

Descendants

• French: probe
• Portuguese: probo
• Spanish: probo, proba

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^[1], 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