propitius

From pro- plus an element possibly derived from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”), so that the original meaning was "falling or rushing forward", hence "eager, well-disposed". Compare Ancient Greek προπετής (propetḗs, “inclined forward”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɔˈpɪ.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈpit̪.t̪͡s̪i.us]

propitius (feminine propitia, neuter propitium); first/second-declension adjective

1. favorable, well-disposed, kind
2. propitious

   Sit utrīsque Venus Pompeiāna propitia et semper concordēs vīvant.

   May Pompeian Venus be propitious in her heart to them both and may they always live harmoniously.

First/second-declension adjective.

• propitiō

• → English: propitious
• → Italian: propizio
• → French: propice
• → Catalan: propici
• → Portuguese: propício
• → Romanian: propice
• → Spanish: propicio

• “propitius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “propitius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "propitius", 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)
• propitius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the favour of heaven: dei propitii (opp. irati)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “propitious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.