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probi

probi is a Latin form of probus, meaning “good, honest, upright; (probe) well, properly”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 1.103: … mnem ludendi licentiam damus, sed eam, quae ab honestatis actionibus non sit aliena, sic in ipso ioco aliquod probi ingenii lumen eluceat.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.7.a: De epistula Valerii Probi grammatici ad Marcellum scripta super accentu nominum quorundam Poenicorum.

All forms of probus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.