prospectus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French prospectus (“a prospectus”), borrowed from Latin.
Noun[edit]
prospectus (plural prospectuses or prospectus)
- A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.[1]
- A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
Translations[edit]
document which describes an institution, publication or business
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perfect passive participle of prōspiciō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prospectus m (genitive prospectūs); fourth declension
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | prospectus | prospectūs |
genitive | prospectūs | prospectuum |
dative | prospectuī | prospectibus |
accusative | prospectum | prospectūs |
ablative | prospectū | prospectibus |
vocative | prospectus | prospectūs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- French: prospectus
- Russian: проспект (prospekt)
- Spanish: prospecto
Participle[edit]
prōspectus m (feminine prōspecta, neuter prōspectum); first/second declension
Inflection[edit]
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | prōspectus | prōspecta | prōspectum | prōspectī | prōspectae | prōspecta | |
genitive | prōspectī | prōspectae | prōspectī | prōspectōrum | prōspectārum | prōspectōrum | |
dative | prōspectō | prōspectō | prōspectīs | ||||
accusative | prōspectum | prōspectam | prōspectum | prōspectōs | prōspectās | prōspecta | |
ablative | prōspectō | prōspectā | prōspectō | prōspectīs | |||
vocative | prōspecte | prōspecta | prōspectum | prōspectī | prōspectae | prōspecta |
References[edit]
- prospectus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prospectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prospectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- one has a view over...; one is able to see as far as..: prospectus est ad aliquid
- one has a view over...; one is able to see as far as..: prospectus est ad aliquid
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- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
- Latin perfect participles
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook