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
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...vide, Parmeno, quid agas, ne neque illi prosis et tu pereas; nam hoc putant quidquid factumst..."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..."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..."
