probo

probo

1. first-person singular present indicative of probar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “probar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Latin probus,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“being in front”), extended form of the root *per (“through, forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɔbo
• Hyphenation: prò‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probi, feminine plural probe)

1. having strong moral principles; honest, decent, virtuous

• probamente

• probità

From Proto-Italic *proβwāō, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).^[1] Equivalent to probus (“good, fit”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔ.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.bo]

probō (present infinitive probāre, perfect active probāvī, supine probātum); first conjugation

1. to approve, permit, commend

   Synonyms: approbō, assentiō, cōnscīscō, scīscō, adnuō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.110-112:

     “[...] sī Iuppiter ūnam / esse velit Tyriīs urbem Troiāque profectīs, / miscērīve probet populōs, aut foedera iungī.”

     [Venus tells Juno that she is uncertain] “whether Jupiter wills [there] to be one city derived from Tyrians and Trojans, [and] if he will approve [of us] having blended [these] peoples, or the treaties to unite [them].”

2. to test, to inspect

   Synonyms: periclitor, experior, tempto, explōrō, spectō

3. to examine

   Synonyms: reputō, cōnsīderō, perpendō, circumspiciō, spectō

4. to demonstrate, to prove, to show
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Pro Ligario 16.2:

     Quod sī probāre Caesarī possēmus in Āfricā Ligārium omninō nōn fuisse […]

     But if we could prove to Caesar that Ligarius wasn't even in Africa […]

5. to acquit, to exonerate

   Synonyms: absolvō, līberō, exonerō

   Antonyms: coarguō, comperiō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing meets with my approval: res mihi probatur
    
  • I express my approval of a thing: res a me probatur
    
  • to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
    
  • to prove one's point to a person's satisfaction: aliquid alicui probare (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)
    
  • it follows from what we have shown: hoc probato consequens est
    
• probo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Latin probus (“good, virtuous”).

• Hyphenation: pro‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)

1. honest, decent, virtuous (having strong moral principles)

• probidade

Borrowed from Latin probus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾobo/ [ˈpɾo.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: pro‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)

1. (formal) honest, upright

   Synonyms: honesto, honrado

   Antonym: ímprobo

• “probo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024