probus

== Ido == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈprobus/ === Verb === probus conditional of probar == Latin == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈprɔ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈprɔː.bus] === Adjective === probus (feminine proba, neuter probum, comparative probior, superlative probissimus, adverb probē); first/second-declension adjective good, serviceable, excellent, superior, able (morally) upright, honest, virtuous, moral, proven Plautus, Trinummus, 320-321. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (good): bonus ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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, 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. “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