proprius
Latin
Etymology
From 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/, [ˈproː.pri.ʊs]
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | prōprius | prōpria | prōprium | prōpriī | prōpriae | prōpria | |
Genitive | prōpriī | prōpriae | prōpriī | prōpriōrum | prōpriārum | prōpriōrum | |
Dative | prōpriō | prōpriae | prōpriō | prōpriīs | prōpriīs | prōpriīs | |
Accusative | prōprium | prōpriam | prōprium | prōpriōs | prōpriās | prōpria | |
Ablative | prōpriō | prōpriā | prōpriō | prōpriīs | prōpriīs | prōpriīs | |
Vocative | prōprie | prōpria | prōprium | prōpriī | prōpriae | prōpria |
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
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, 1883–1887)
- proprius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium
- something is a characteristic of a man: aliquid est proprium alicuius
- the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 829
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