procul

Latin

Etymology

From the root of celer, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive, force to move quickly”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

procul (not comparable)

  1. far, far away, far-off
    Brasīlia procul ab Iapōniā est.
    Brazil is far from Japan.
    • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.3.19:
      nāta procul Libycīs aberat dīversa sub ōrīs
      My daughter was far away on the Libyan shore

References

  • “procul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “procul”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “procul”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
    • God forbid: quod abominor! (procul absit!)
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