proprius

Latin

Etymology

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From prō- +‎ Proto-Italic *prijos, from Proto-Indo-European *priHós. Cognate with English free.

Others suggestions are:

• for *prōprīvus, from prīvus or ultimately from this root.
• for *prōpatrius, from prō- + pater, meaning "from one's forefathers", taking Ancient Greek προπάτωρ (propátōr, “forefather”) as comparison.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.pri.us/, [ˈproːpriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.pri.us/, [ˈprɔːprius]

Adjective

prōprius (feminine prōpria, neuter prōprium); first/second-declension adjective

1. own, individual
2. special, particular, characteristic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	prōprius	prōpria	prōprium		prōpriī	prōpriae	prōpria
Genitive	prōpriī	prōpriae	prōpriī		prōpriōrum	prōpriārum	prōpriōrum
Dative	prōpriō		prōpriō		prōpriīs
Accusative	prōprium	prōpriam	prōprium		prōpriōs	prōpriās	prōpria
Ablative	prōpriō	prōpriā	prōpriō		prōpriīs
Vocative	prōprie	prōpria	prōprium		prōpriī	prōpriae	prōpria

Derived terms

• prōprietās
• prōpriē
• prōpriō

 

Descendants

• Asturian: propiu, prupiu
• Catalan: propi
• English: proper
• Esperanto: propra
• French: propre
• Istriot: pruoprio
• Italian: proprio

• Portuguese: próprio
• Romanian: propriu
• Spanish: propio
• Venetian: propio
• Lombard: propes, propi

See also

• pecūliāris
• prīvātus

References

• “proprius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proprius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proprius 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)
• proprius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium
    
  • something is a characteristic of a man: aliquid est proprium alicuius
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 829