comprobo
See also: comprobó
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komˈprɔ.bo/
- Rhymes: -ɔbo
- Hyphenation: com‧prò‧bo
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.pro.boː/, [ˈkɔmprɔboː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.pro.bo/, [ˈkɔmprobo]
Verb
comprobō (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
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants
- Catalan: comprovar
- Galician: comprobar
- Italian: comprovare
- Portuguese: comprovar
- Spanish: comprobar
References
- “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, 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
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