English
proverse
Proverse comes from Latin prōversus ‘turned forwards’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōversus‘turned forwards’
- Englishearliest quotation 1898proverse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEprōversus‘turned forwards’
- Englishearliest quotation 1898proverse
Earliest quotation: 1898, Edward Thomas Owen, The Meaning and Function of Thought-connectives: “But this, like every other, has its proverse and…”
Equivalent to pro- + -verse
Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Italic *prō ‘in front of, before’
Latin prō ‘in favor of, on behalf of’
English pro-
Every English word from Latin prōversus
Today it means
adj Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin prōversus / proverse