comprobo
See also: comprobó
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editcomprobo
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom con- (“completely”) + probō (“I esteem as good, serviceable, fit, just”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkom.pro.boː/, [ˈkɔmprɔboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.pro.bo/, [ˈkɔmprobo]
Verb
editcomprobō (present infinitive comprobāre, perfect active comprobāvī, supine comprobātum); first conjugation
- (Classical and very frequent, especially in prose, subjective) to approve wholly of something; to assent to, sanction, or acknowledge
- (objective) to prove, establish, attest, make good, show, confirm, or verify something to others as true, good, excellent, virtuous, etc.
Conjugation
edit1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants
edit- Catalan: comprovar
- Galician: comprobar
- Italian: comprovare
- Portuguese: comprovar
- Spanish: comprobar
References
edit- “comprŏbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comprobo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comprobo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
- to prove a thing indisputably: argumentis confirmare, comprobare, evincere aliquid (or c. Acc. c. Inf.)
- to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare
Categories:
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔbo
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔbo/3 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Latin terms prefixed with con-
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -av-
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook