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English
Noun
proles
- plural of prole
Verb
proles
- third-person singular simple present indicative of prole
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From pro- + *olēs (“growth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
prōlēs f (genitive prōlis); third declension
- offspring, children, progeny, descendants, a line of descendants, family, race
- Synonyms: stirps, stirpis, prōgeniēs, partus
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.74–75:
- “Omnīs ut tēcum meritīs prō tālibus annōs
exigat, et pulchrā faciat tē prōle parentem.”- “ as a reward for the services required, all years with you, and make you a father with a fair line .”
(Juno tempts Aeolus to do her will by offering him marriage to Deiopea. Alliteration: “pulchra prole parentem.”)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- proles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “prolific”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Spanish
Noun
proles
- plural of prole