proin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɔɪn/

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Verb

proin (third-person singular simple present proins, present participle proining, simple past and past participle proined)

1. Obsolete form of prune.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     The sprigs that did about it grow
     He proined from the leafy arms.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Anagrams

• Ripon, orpin, ponir, porin, prion, rip on, ripon

Latin

Adverb

proin (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of proinde

References

• “proin”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proin in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.