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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of prōscrībō.
Participle
prōscrīptus (feminine prōscrīpta, neuter prōscrīptum); first/second-declension participle
- advertised
- outlawed, banished
- proscribed, banned
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “proscriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proscriptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proscriptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to place a person's name on the list of the proscribed: in proscriptorum numerum referre aliquem (Rosc. Am. 11. 32)
- to erase a person's name from the list of the proscribed: e proscriptorum numero eximere aliquem