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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈproː.sũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈprɔː.s̬um]

動詞

prōsum (present infinitive prōdesse, perfect active prōfuī, future active participle prōfutūrus); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund

1. (with a dative) to be useful or of use, do good, help, benefit, profit

   Synonyms: iuvō, adiuvō, foveō, assistō, prōficiō, expediō, adiūtō, succurrō, cōnferō, adsum

   Antonym: officiō

   • c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory:

     Nocere facile est, prodesse difficile.

     It is easy to do harm, difficult to do good.

   • Cicero, Cato maior de senectute, VII, 24:

     Serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint

     Plant the trees, so that they may serve another generation

2. to serve

   Synonym: mereō

3. (of medicines) to be good or beneficial
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.267:

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples […]

Conjugation

Old Latin or in poetry.

派生語

• prōde (Late Latin)

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参照

• “prosum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prosum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prosum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• prosum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016