# probo
## Galician
### Verb

probo
* first-person singular present indicative of probar

### Further reading

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “probar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin probus, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰuH-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“being in front”), extended form of the root *per (“through, forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈprɔ.bo/
* Rhymes: -ɔbo
* Hyphenation: prò‧bo

### Adjective

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probi, feminine plural probe)
* having strong moral principles; honest, decent, virtuous

#### Derived terms

* probamente

#### Related terms

* probità

### References

* ↑ « probo », Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *proβwāō, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-bʰH-wó-s (“being in front”), from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”). Equivalent to probus (“good, fit”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpro.boː/, [ˈprɔboː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpro.bo/, [ˈprɔːbo]

### Verb

probō (present infinitive probāre, perfect active probāvī, supine probātum); first conjugation
* to approve, permit, commend
    Synonyms: approbō, assentiō, cōnscīscō, scīscō, adnuō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.110-112:“[...] sī Iuppiter ūnam / esse velit Tyriīs urbem Troiāque profectīs, / miscērīve probet populōs, aut foedera iungī.”[Venus tells Juno that she is uncertain] “whether Jupiter wills [there] to be one city derived from Tyrians and Trojans, [and] if he will approve [of us] having blended [these] peoples, or the treaties to unite [them].”
* to test, to inspect
    Synonyms: periclitor, experior, tempto, explōrō, spectō
* to examine
    Synonyms: reputō, cōnsīderō, perpendō, circumspiciō, spectō
* to demonstrate, to prove, to show
** 46 BCE, Cicero, Pro Ligario 16.2:Quod sī probāre Caesarī possēmus in Āfricā Ligārium omninō nōn fuisse […] But if we could prove to Caesar that Ligarius wasn't even in Africa […]
* to acquit, to exonerate
    Synonyms: absolvō, līberō, exonerō
    Antonyms: coarguō, comperiō

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* approbō
* comprobō
* improbō
* proba
* probābilis
* probāmentum
* probātor
* probātus
* reprobō

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: prebar
* Asturian: probar
* Catalan: provar
* Friulian: provâ
* Galician: probar
* Italian: provare
** → Esperanto: provi
* Occitan: provar
* Old French: prover, prouver, pruver (see there for further descendants)
** French: prouver
** → German: prüfen
** → Old English: prōfian
*** Middle English: proven
**** English: prove
* Portuguese: provar
* Romanian: proba
* Romansch: pruvar, pruver, pruar, provar
* Sardinian: proai, proare, probare, provai, provare
* Sicilian: pruvari
* Spanish: probar
** → Ido: probar
* Venetan: provar, proar
* → Dutch: proberen, proeven
* → English: probe
* → German: probieren, proben
* → Hungarian: próbál
* → Old Irish: promaid
** Irish: promh

### References

* “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “probo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* probo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a thing meets with my approval: res mihi probatur I express my approval of a thing: res a me probatur to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare to prove one's point to a person's satisfaction: aliquid alicui probare (or c. Acc. c. Inf.) it follows from what we have shown: hoc probato consequens est
* probo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “prove”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin probus (“good, virtuous”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾo.bu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾo.bu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾo.bo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɾo.bu/ [ˈpɾo.βu]
* Hyphenation: pro‧bo

### Adjective

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)
* honest, decent, virtuous (having strong moral principles)

#### Related terms

* probidade

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin probus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾobo/ [ˈpɾo.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -obo
* Syllabification: pro‧bo

### Adjective

probo (feminine proba, masculine plural probos, feminine plural probas)
* (formal) honest, upright
    Synonyms: honesto, honrado
    Antonym: ímprobo

#### Derived terms

* probidad

### Further reading

* “probo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10