The corpus record — Latin

prosperus

prosperous, successful

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 16s 1 · 125/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 2 · 120.48/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 2 · 117.65/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 2 · 99.5/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 17s 1 · 83.33/10k
Timotheus 1 · 15.36/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 4 · 5.26/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 43 3 · 5.23/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 6 · 4.64/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. prosperus — de Vaan

prosperus 'prosperous, successful' [adj. o/a\ (Naev.+) Derivatives: prosperare 'to succeed, further' (P1.+). Pit *pro-sparo-. PIE *sph r ro- 'thriving'. IE cognates: Hit, ispai- / ispi- 'to get full, be satiated' < *sph r oi- / *sph r i-; Skt. sphira- 'fat*, sphaya- 'to become fat, increase', OCS speti 'to succeed', Ru. spet' 'to ripen' < PIE *speh r , OE spdwan 'to prosper'. A combination of pro plus PIE *sph r ro- … — [de Vaan, s.v. prosperus, p. 507]

2. prospĕrus — Lewis & Short

prospĕrus, a, um, v. prosper.

3. prosperus — Walde–Hofmann

prosperus (prosper Donatian, bei Prisc. II 225, 10, Sommer Hb.? 336 [vgl. Cogn. Prosper(us)]), -a, -um „günstig, glücklich“ (seit Naev. . (Adv. -e seit Plaut. Komp. prosperior seit Ov., Sup. prosperrimus seit Vell.; prosperitäs ,Gedeihen, Glück* seit Cic, prosperó, -Are „gebe Gedeihen, beglücke; mache gnädig“ seit Plt, prosperdtió „günstiger Fortgang“ Op. imp. in Matth., CL, prospérifació „mache edeihen* Itala Luc. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. prosperus, p. 1281]

In the wild

prospere Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.18s
prospere Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.10.2
prosperus Silius Italicus, Punica 10.201
prospere Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.22.40.3
prospere Tacitus, Historiae 2.25
prospere Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 p8

6 of 235 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. prosperus (scan pp. 507-508; entry #1407).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. prosperus (scan pp. 1281-1282; entry #2158). Root candidates: *sper-.

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.