prosis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prosa, prosae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Latham (Medieval Word List)
- Age:
- Medieval
- Field:
- Literature
prose;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →prosus, prosa, prosum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Age:
- Neo-Latin
straightforward (of style) (i.e. prose); (Erasmus);
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all) - Entry →prosum, prodesse, profui, profuturus:
Verb · Compounds Of To Be
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
be useful, be advantageous, benefit, profit (with DAT);
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- P
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...vide, Parmeno, quid agas, ne neque illi prosis et tu pereas; nam hoc putant quidquid factumst..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...accerso tantum, ut proficias, sed ut prosis; plurimum enim alter alteri conferemus. Interim quoniam diurnam tibi mercedulam debeo..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quantum possis, in eo semper experire ut prosis". Hoc est parison, ut plerisque placuit; Theon Stoicus parison existimat..."
