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Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
proprie
- feminine plural of proprio
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
proprie
- vocative masculine singular of proprius
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Adverb
propriē (comparative magis propriē, superlative maximē propriē)
- as belonging to one, as one's own
- on one's own account, privately, individually
- specifically (applying to one to the exclusion of others)
- used of rights or privileges
- properly, strictly speaking
- appropriately, rightly
- particularly, especially
References
Further reading
- “proprie”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proprie”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proprie 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)
- proprie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.