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Latin
Etymology
From the root of celer, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive, force to move quickly”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
procul (not comparable)
- far, far away; at a distance, from afar
Brasilia procul ab Iaponia est.- Brazil is far from Japan.
References
- “procul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “procul”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
- God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)