probus

• IPA^(key): /ˈprobus/

probus

1. conditional of probar

From Proto-Indo-European *probʰwo- (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). See also prōsum. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रभु (prabhu, “excellent, foremost, potent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.bus/, [ˈprɔ.bʊs]

probus (feminine proba, neuter probum); first/second declension

1. good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able
2. (morally) upright, honest, virtuous

First/second declension.

• (good): bonus

• French: probe
• Portuguese: probo
• Spanish: probo, proba

• probus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• probus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• probus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
    
• probus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray