probo

probo

1. first-person singular present indicative of probar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “probar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Latin probus,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“being in front”), extended form of the root *per (“through, forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɔbo
• Hyphenation: prò‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probi, feminine plural probe)

1. having strong moral principles; honest, decent, virtuous

• probamente

• probità

From Proto-Italic *proβwāō, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).^[1] Equivalent to probus (“good, fit”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.boː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.bo/,

probō (present infinitive probāre, perfect active probāvī, supine probātum); first conjugation

1. to approve, permit, commend

   Synonyms: approbō, assentiō, cōnscīscō, scīscō, adnuō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.110-112:

     “ sī Iuppiter ūnam / esse velit Tyriīs urbem Troiāque profectīs, / miscērīve probet populōs, aut foedera iungī.”

     “whether Jupiter wills to be one city derived from Tyrians and Trojans, if he will approve having blended peoples, or the treaties to unite .”

2. to test, to inspect

   Synonyms: periclitor, experior, tempto, explōrō, spectō

3. to examine

   Synonyms: reputō, cōnsīderō, perpendō, circumspiciō, spectō

4. to demonstrate, to prove, to show
   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Pro Ligario 16.2:

     Quod sī probāre Caesarī possēmus in Āfricā Ligārium omninō nōn fuisse

     But if we could prove to Caesar that Ligarius wasn't even in Africa

5. to acquit, to exonerate

   Synonyms: absolvō, līberō, exonerō

   Antonyms: coarguō, comperiō

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

• “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• probo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing meets with my approval: res mihi probatur
    
  • I express my approval of a thing: res a me probatur
    
  • to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
    
  • to prove one's point to a person's satisfaction: aliquid alicui probare (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)
    
  • it follows from what we have shown: hoc probato consequens est
    
• probo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Latin probus (“good, virtuous”).

• Hyphenation: pro‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)

1. honest, decent, virtuous (having strong moral principles)

• probidade

Borrowed from Latin probus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: pro‧bo

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)

1. (formal) honest, upright

   Synonyms: honesto, honrado

   Antonym: ímprobo

• “probo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10