procere

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin procerus (“tall”).

Adjective[edit]

procere (comparative more procere, superlative most procere)

  1. (obsolete) Of high stature; tall.
    • 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber:
      Such lignous and woody plants as are hard of substance, procere of stature, that are thick and solid, and stiffly adhere to the ground on which they stand.

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Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

procere

  1. feminine plural of procero

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

procēre

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of procor
  2. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of procō

Adjective[edit]

prōcēre

  1. vocative masculine singular of prōcērus

References[edit]

  • “procere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “procere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • procere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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