English

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Etymology

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From Latin proprium (of one's own).

Noun

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proprium (plural propria)

  1. (philosophy) A property that applies to all members of a species and only to them, serving to distinguish the species from other species within the same genus, yet is not part of the true definition or the essence of the species.
    • Abraham Stone, Humanities 116: Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities, people.ucsc.edu[1]:
      (So you can use a proprium to pick out a species—for example, you could say: “a human is a risible mortal animal”—but, in that case, you aren’t picking out the species by its true definition.)
  2. (theology) selfhood
    • 1758, Emanuel Swedenborg, The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine:
      Man of himself, so far as he is under the influence of his proprium, is worse than the brutes. If man should be led by his own proprium, he could not possibly be saved.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Compare German Nomen proprium (from Latin nomen proprium), Danish proprium and Slovak proprium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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proprium n

  1. proper noun
    Synonym: vlastní jméno
    Antonym: apelativum

Declension

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Further reading

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  • proprium”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • proprium”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Danish

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Etymology

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From Latin (nōmen) proprium, neuter of proprius (own, individual).

Noun

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proprium n (singular definite propriet, plural indefinite proprier)

  1. (grammar) proper noun (the name of a particular person, place, organization or other individual entity)

Inflection

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Declension of proprium
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative proprium propriet proprier proprierne
genitive propriums propriets propriers propriernes

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Latin

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Adjective

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proprium

  1. inflection of proprius:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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proprium n (definite singular propriet, indefinite plural proprier, definite plural propria or propriene)

  1. (grammar) proper noun
  2. (Christianity) part of mass which is particular to the date or situation
    Coordinate term: ordinarium

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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proprium n (definite singular propriet, indefinite plural proprium, definite plural propria)

  1. (grammar) proper noun
  2. (Christianity) part of mass which is particular to the date or situation
    Coordinate term: ordinarium

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin prōprium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.prjum/
  • Rhymes: -ɔprjum
  • Syllabification: pro‧prium

Noun

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proprium n

  1. (Roman Catholicism) proper (part of the Christian liturgy that varies according to the date, either representing an observance within the liturgical year, or of a particular saint or significant event)

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Slovak

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Etymology

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From Latin (nōmen) proprium, neuter of proprius (own, individual).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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proprium n (relational adjective propriálny)

  1. (grammar) proper noun

Declension

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Declension of proprium
(pattern mesto, of Latin origin ending with -um)
singularplural
nominativepropriumpropriá
genitivepropriaproprií
dativepropriupropriám
accusativepropriumpropriá
locativepropriepropriách
instrumentalpropriompropriami

Further reading

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  • proprium”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025