comprobo

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See also: comprobó

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /komˈprɔ.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔbo
  • Hyphenation: com‧prò‧bo

Verb

comprobo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of comprobare

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From con- (completely) +‎ probō (I esteem as good, serviceable, fit, just).

Pronunciation

Verb

comprobō (present infinitive comprobāre, perfect active comprobāvī, supine comprobātum); first conjugation

  1. (Classical and very frequent, especially in prose, subjective) to approve wholly of something; to assent to, sanction, or acknowledge
  2. (objective) to prove, establish, attest, make good, show, confirm, or verify something to others as true, good, excellent, virtuous, etc.

Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Descendants

References

  • comprŏbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comprobo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comprobo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
    • to prove a thing indisputably: argumentis confirmare, comprobare, evincere aliquid (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)