prosperus

Latin

Alternative forms

• prosper (singular masculine nominative only)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *-sparos, Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from *speh₁- (“to succeed”) (whence spēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔs.pɛ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔs.pe.rus]

Adjective

prosperus (feminine prospera, neuter prosperum, superlative prosperrimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. prosperous, successful
2. favourable, propitious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prosperus	prospera	prosperum		prosperī	prosperae	prospera
genitive	prosperī	prosperae	prosperī		prosperōrum	prosperārum	prosperōrum
dative	prosperō	prosperae	prosperō		prosperīs
accusative	prosperum	prosperam	prosperum		prosperōs	prosperās	prospera
ablative	prosperō	prosperā	prosperō		prosperīs
vocative	prospere	prospera	prosperum		prosperī	prosperae	prospera

Derived terms

• improsper
• prosperitās
• prosperō

Descendants

• → Catalan: pròsper
• → French: prospère
• → Galician: próspero
• → Italian: prospero
• → Occitan: prospèr
• → Portuguese: próspero
• → Romanian: prosper
• → Spanish: próspero

References

• “prosperus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prosperus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prosperus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
    
  • when life runs smoothly: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem fluentibus
    
  • (ambiguous) to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunae favore or prospero flatu fortunae uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “prosperus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 493