LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

probus1

probus1

excellent, good

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Densest 12 of 121 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. probus — de Vaan

probus 'excellent, good' [adj. o/a] (Naev.+) Derivatives: (1) probitas 'honesty, integrity' (Pac.+); approbus 'excellent5 (Caecil.+), improbus 'of poor quality, improper, greedy' (Lex XII+); probare cto approve of, commend, prove' (Naev.+), probaiio 'approval, proof (Varro+), — [de Vaan, s.v. probus, p. 504]

2. prŏbus — Lewis & Short

prŏbus, a, um, adj.Sanscr. prabhus, prominent, strong, from pra (v. pro) and bhu = fio,

I good, proper, serviceable, excellent, superior, able; esp. in a moral point of view, upright, honest, honorable, excellent, virtuous, etc. (class.).
A Of persons: frugi et probum esse, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 53: probum patrem esse oportet, qui gnatum suom esse probiorem, quam ipsus fuerit, postulat, id. Ps. 1, 5, 23: cantores probos, skilful, excellent, fine, id. ib. 3, 132: faber, id. Poen. 4, 2, 93: architectus, id. Mil. 3, 3, 40: artifex, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 29: lena, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 14: amator, id. ib. 20: ad aliquam rem, fit, id. Poen. 3, 3, 67. —
2 In partic., well-behaved, well-conducted: quam cives vero rumificant probam, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 46: proba et modesta (mulier), Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 7.—
B Of things abstr. and concr.: affer huc duas clavas, sed probas, Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 20: argentum, id. Pers. 4, 3, 57: nummi, id. ib. 3, 3, 33: materies, id. Poen. 4, 2, 93: occasio, id. Cas. 5, 4, 2: navigium, Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 100: res, id. Or. 51, 170: ager, Col. Arbor. 3, 6: sapor, id. ib. 3, 7?? color, id. ib. 8, 2.—Prov.: proba merx facile emtorem reperit, the best goods sell themselves, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 129; cf.: probae fruges suāpte naturā enitent, Acc. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13.—As subst.: prŏbus, i, a good, worthy, upright man: poëta peccat, cum probi orationem adfingit improbo stultove sapienti, Cic. Or. 22, 74.—Adv., in two forms.
A Form prŏbē, rightly, well, properly, fitly, opportunely, excellently (class.): milites armati atque animati probe, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 18: aedes factae probe, id. Most. 1, 2, 19?? probe lepideque concinnatus, id. Men. 3, 2, 1: usque adhuc actum est probe, id. Mil. 2, 6, 107: probe curare aliquid, id. Rud. 2, 3, 50: satis scite et probe, id. Trin. 3, 3, 56: narras, Ter. And. 5, 6, 6: intellegere, id. Eun. 4, 6, 30: Antipater, quem tu probe meministi, Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: de aquaeductu probe fecisti, id. Att. 13, 6, 1: scire, id. Fam. 2, 12, 2: exercitus satis probe ornatus auxiliis, id. ib. 2, 10, 2: illud probe judicas, id. Att. 7, 3, 3: de Servio probe dicis, id. Brut. 41, 151; id. Off. 1, 19, 62: scire, id. Brut. 2, 12; Liv. 22, 15.—
2 Transf., in gen., well, fitly, thoroughly, very, very much, greatly, finely, capitally, bravely (syn.: plane, omnino, sine dubio): appotus probe, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 126: percutere aliquem, id. ib. 1, 1, v. 162: decipere, id. ib. 1, 1, v. 268: errare, id. ib. 3, 3, 20: vide, ut sit acutus culter probe, id. Mil. 5, 4: tui similis est probe, Ter. Heaut. 5, 3, 18: perdocta est probe, id. ib. 2, 3, 120. —In responses, as a token of applause, well done! good! bravo! unde agis te? Ca. Unde homo ebrius. Philo. Probe, Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 28: miles concubinam intro abiit oratum suam, ab se ut abeat. Acr Eu, probe! id. Mil. 4, 4, 9: probissime, very well, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 65; id. Eun. 4, 7, 3.—
B Form prŏbĭter, well, fitly, capitally (ante-class.), Varr. ap. Non. 510, 29; cf. Prisc. p. 1010.

3. Prŏbus — Lewis & Short

Prŏbus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname, Suet. Gram. 24.—Prŏbĭānus, a, um, adj., of or named from a Probus: purpura, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40.

In the wild

6 of 594 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. probus (scan p. 504; entry #1395).
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. probus (scan p. 561; entry #9205).

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.