prognariter

Latin

Alternative forms

  • praegnāviter (alternative manuscript reading)

Etymology

From unattested *prōgnārus + -ter or prō- +‎ gnārus +‎ -ter.

Pronunciation

Adverb

prōgnāriter (comparative prōgnārius, superlative prōgnārissimē) (Old Latin, very rare)

  1. very skilfully, very expertly
    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 6.200–202:
      divi hoc audite parumper,
      Ut pro Romano populo prognariter armis
      Certando prudens animam de corpore mitto.
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  2. decisively, definitely
    • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 4.4.39–40:
      Vin bene emere? — Vin tu pulchre vendere?
      — Ego scio hercle utrumque velle. —— Age, indica prognariter.
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    • c. 280 CE, Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina I 150:
      PRAEGNAVITER, strenue, fortiter et constanter. Plautus Persa:
      'ego scio hercle utrumque belle.' — 'age, indica praegnaviter.'
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

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