prohibit
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“I fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəˈhɪbɪt/, /pɹəʊˈhɪbɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈhɪbɪt/, /pɹəˈhɪbət/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Verb edit
prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)
- (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
- Synonyms: ban, disallow, forbid, proscribe
- Antonyms: allow, authorize, permit
- The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
- 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
- In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:prohibit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to proscribe officially
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “prohibit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prohibit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
Participle edit
prohibit (feminine prohibida, masculine plural prohibits, feminine plural prohibides)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Past participle of prohibi.
Adjective edit
prohibit m or n (feminine singular prohibită, masculine plural prohibiți, feminine and neuter plural prohibite)
Declension edit
Declension of prohibit
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | prohibit | prohibită | prohibiți | prohibite | ||
definite | prohibitul | prohibita | prohibiții | prohibitele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | prohibit | prohibite | prohibiți | prohibite | ||
definite | prohibitului | prohibitei | prohibiților | prohibitelor |