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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pro- (compare Latin prōcērus) and tenus (“up to, as far as”), from *ten- (“extend”) (compare Latin tendō (“I stretch out”)).
Pronunciation
Adverb
prōtinus (not comparable)
- immediately, forthwith
- Synonyms: continuō, statim, cōnfestim, extemplō
- (rare) forward, farther on, onward
- Synonyms: ultrā, ultrō
70 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Eclogues 1:
- Nōn equidem invideō; mīror magis: undique tōtīs
ūsque adeō turbātur agrīs. Ēn, ipse capellās
prōtinus aeger agō; hanc etiam vix, Tītyre, dūcō:
hīc inter dēnsās corylōs modo namque gemellōs,
spem gregis, ah, silice in nūdā cōnixa relīquit.- I certainly don't envy you; I am amazed more: everywhere in all
the fields there's such disturbance. Look, the goats by myself
I drive forward sick as I am; this one too I am barely leading, Tityrus:
for here among dense hazels, just now, twin kids,
the hope of the flock, ah! it abandoned exhausted on bare rock.
- continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly
- Synonyms: continenter, iūgiter
References
- “protinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “protinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- protinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.