procus

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

From Proto-Italic *prokos, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask, woo”).

procus m (genitive procī); second declension

1. wooer, suitor
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.534–536:

     “[...] Rūrsusne procōs inrīsa priōrēs / experiar, Nomadumque petam cōnūbia supplex, / quōs ego sim totiēns iam dēdignāta marītōs?”

     “Should I be laughed at for trying those former suitors yet again, and plead a Numidian marriage [as a humble] suppliant to those whom I have disdained now many times before [as prospective] husbands?”

Second-declension noun.

Alternative genitive plural procum, with the short genitive plural ending -um.

• procō

• → Italian: proco
• → Portuguese: proco

• procer (collateral)

procus m (genitive procī); second declension

1. alternative form of procer

Second-declension noun.

• “procus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “procus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• corpus, porcus, spurcō