promptos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →promo, promere, prompsi, promptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
take/bring out/forth; bring into view; bring out/display on the stage;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →promptus, prompta -um, promptior -or -us, promptissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
set forth, brought forward, manifest, disclosed; willing, ready, eager, quick;
acc. pl. (m.) - Entry →promptus, promptus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
readiness; ease; exposing to view;
gen. sg.
Examples
Cistellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...dixeris. accipias clavis: si quid opus tibi erit prompto, promito. ego volo ire. GYMN. Vt mi excivisti lacrimas..."Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...cavenda atque declinanda perinde esse oportet animo prompto semper atque intento, ut sunt athletarum, qui pancratiastae vocantur..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...reperias et faciles in excogitando et ad discendum promptos. Quippe id est homini naturale, ac sicut aves..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...sunt eius ordinis, a Pompeio evocantur. Laudat promptos Pompeius atque in posterum confirmat, segniores castigat atque incitat. Multi..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...censebant— occurrunt; simul in Campanos stimulabat ira tam promptos nunc ad ferenda, nunc ad accersenda adversus se auxilia..."Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...probris. non solum Cossutianum aut Eprium ad scelus promptos: superesse qui forsitan manus ictusque per immanitatem ausuri sint..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...scelus missos aut numero validos aut animo promptos, postquam iussa efficere nequiverint, ad spes novas transisse..."Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...patientia; praepositique servi qui conquirerent pertraherent, dona in promptos, minas adversum abnuentis, et si retinerent propinquus aut parens..."