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Latin
Etymology
Possibly for *provillium, *produillium, from duellum, bellum.
Pronunciation
Noun
proelium n (genitive proeliī or proelī); second declension
- a battle, combat, conflict
- Synonyms: pugna, bellum, certamen, dimicatio, duellum
- (poetic) warriors taken collectively
- a contest, strife
- Synonyms: certatus, rixa
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “proelium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proelium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proelium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to provoke the enemy to battle: proelio (ad pugnam) hostes lacessere, provocare
- to refrain from fighting: supersedere proelio
- to demand loudly the signal to engage: signum proelii (committendi) exposcere (B. G. 7. 19)
- to give the signal to engage: signum proelii dare
- (1) to begin the battle, (2) to give battle: proelium committere
- to engage: proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)
- to give battle: proelium facere
- to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelio equestri contendere
- to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelium equestre facere
- to fight successfully: proelium facere secundum
- to fight successfully: proeliis secundis uti
- to interrupt the battle: proelium intermittere
- to break off the fight: proelium dirimere (B. C. 1. 40)
- to renew the battle with success: proelium restituere
- to begin the fight again: proelium renovare, redintegrare
- to give up the fight: proelium deserere
- to fight a decisive battle: proelio, armis decertare (B. G. 1. 50)
- to take part in the engagement: proelio interesse
- a bloody battle: proelium cruentum, atrox
- a pitched battle: proelium iustum (opp. tumultuarium)
- the lines charge in battle one on another: proelio concurritur (Sall. Iug. 59)
- to fight a pitched, orderly battle with an enemy: iusto (opp. tumultuario) proelio confligere cum hoste (Liv. 35. 4)
- the issue of the battle is undecided: proelium anceps est
- to be defeated in fight, lose the battle: proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedere
- to come off victorious: superiorem (opp. inferiorem), victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere
- to gain a victory, win a battle: proelio vincere