prospectus

== English == === Etymology === From French prospectus (“a prospectus”), borrowed from Latin prospectus. Doublet of prospect and prospekt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɹəsˈpɛktəs/ === Noun === prospectus (plural prospectuses or prospectus) A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer. A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write). A booklet or other document giving details of a share offer for the benefit of investors. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “prospectus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin prospectus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁɔs.pɛk.tys/ === Noun === prospectus m (invariable) prospectus, leaflet ==== Descendants ==== → English: prospectus === Further reading === “prospectus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːsˈpɛk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [prosˈpɛk.tus] === Etymology 1 === From prōspiciō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== prōspectus m (genitive prōspectūs); fourth declension view, sight, prospect Caes. G. 2, 22: in prospectu esse 78, Plinius, Naturalis Historia, XIX, 59 iam in fenestris suis plebs urbana imagine hortorum cotidiana oculis rura praebebant, antequam praefigi prospectus omnes coegit multitudinis innumerae saeva latrocinatio. panorama 2015, Francisci, Laudato si' §85: ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Italian: prospetto → Catalan: prospecte → English: prospect → French: prospectus→ English: prospectus → Georgian: გამზირი (gamziri) (calque) → German: Prospekt→ Russian: проспе́кт (prospékt)→ Armenian: պրոսպեկտ (prospekt)→ Azerbaijani: prospekt→ English: prospekt→ Georgian: პროსპექტი (ṗrosṗekṭi)→ Lithuanian: prospektas→ Macedonian: проспект (prospekt)→ Serbo-Croatian: про̀спект, pròspekt → Norwegian: prospekt → Spanish: prospecto === Etymology 2 === Perfect passive participle of prōspiciō. ==== Participle ==== prōspectus (feminine prōspecta, neuter prōspectum); first/second-declension participle watched or looked (out) discerned foreseen ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “prospectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “prospectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “prospectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.