proficiscor
Latin
Etymology
From prōficiō (“I advance, I make headway”) + -īscō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pro.fiˈkiːs.kor/, [prɔfɪˈkiːs̠kɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro.fiˈt͡ʃis.kor/, [profiˈt͡ʃiskor]
Verb
prŏficīscor (present infinitive prŏficīscī, perfect active prŏfectus sum); third conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “proficiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proficiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proficiscor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to invade the territory of the Sequani: in Sequanos proficisci
- to set out by the Appian road: Appia via proficisci
- to go abroad: peregre proficisci
- to advance in the direction of Rome: Romam versus proficisci
- to set out for Rome: ad Romam proficisci
- he starts in all haste, precipitately: properat, maturat proficisci
- to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
- to originate in, arise from: ab aliqua re proficisci
- to be based on a sound principle: a certa ratione proficisci
- to start from false premises: a falsis principiis proficisci
- to start from a definition: a definitione proficisci
- to go into exile: in exsilium ire, pergere, proficisci
- to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
- to go to Cilicia as pro-consul: pro consule in Ciliciam proficisci
- to go to war, commence a campaign: proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)
- to invade the territory of the Sequani: in Sequanos proficisci