proles

English

Noun

proles

1. plural of prole

Anagrams

• Lopers, Spoerl, lopers, polers, sloper

Latin

Etymology

From pro- + *olēs (“growth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.leːs/, [ˈproːɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.les/, [ˈprɔːles]

Noun

prōlēs f (genitive prōlis); third declension

1. offspring, children, progeny, descendants, a line of descendants, family, race

   Synonyms: stirps, stirpis, prōgeniēs, partus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.74–75:

     “Omnīs ut tēcum meritīs prō tālibus annōs
     exigat, et pulchrā faciat tē prōle parentem.”

     “[Aeolus,] as a reward for the services [now] required, [Deiopea will spend] all [her] years with you, and make you a father with a fair line [of descendants].”
     (Juno tempts Aeolus to do her will by offering him marriage to Deiopea. Alliteration: “pulchra prole parentem.”)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.719:

     Tollet humō validōs prōlēs Hyriēa lacertōs.

     The offspring of Hyrieus will raise from the ground his strong arms
     (See: Hyrieus; Orion (mythology). The heliacal rising of the upper part of Orion (constellation) occurs in June.)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōlēs	prōlēs
Genitive	prōlis	prōlium
Dative	prōlī	prōlibus
Accusative	prōlem	prōlēs prōlīs
Ablative	prōle	prōlibus
Vocative	prōlēs	prōlēs

Derived terms

• prōlētārius

Descendants

• Catalan: prole
• Italian: prole
• Old Galician-Portuguese: proe
• → Portuguese: prole
• Spanish: prole

References

• “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proles 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)
• proles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “prolific”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Spanish

Noun

proles

1. plural of prole