proin
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
proin (third-person singular simple present proins, present participle proining, simple past and past participle proined)
- Obsolete form of prune.
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC:
- The sprigs that did about it grow
He proined from the leafy arms.
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Latin[edit]
Adverb[edit]
proin (not comparable)
- Alternative form of proinde
References[edit]
- “proin”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- proin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.