probus

• IPA^(key): /ˈprobus/

probus

1. conditional of probar

From Proto-Italic *proβwos, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). See also prōsum. Cognate with Sanskrit प्रभु (prabhú, “excellent, foremost, potent”).

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

probus (feminine proba, neuter probum, comparative probior, superlative probissimus, adverb probē); first/second-declension adjective

1. good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able
2. (morally) upright, honest, virtuous, moral, proven

   Puer probus patrī oboedit

   A virtuous boy obeys his father

   • Plautus, Trinummus, 320-321.

     is probus est quem paenitet quam probus sit et frugi bonae

     The good man is discontent with how decent and how worthy he may be.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (good): bonus

• → French: probe
• → Italian: probo
• → Portuguese: probo
• → Sicilian: provu (semi-learned)
• → Spanish: probo

• “probus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “probus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "probus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• probus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
    
• “probus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “probus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray