proflo

From prō- + flō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈproː.fɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.flo]

prōflō (present infinitive prōflāre, perfect active prōflāvī, supine prōflātum); first conjugation (poetic, later in post-Augustan writers)

1. (transitive) to blow forth, breathe out, exhale; (by extension) to emit, belch out
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.569–574:

     Prima movet Cacus conlata proelia dextra
     remque ferox saxis stipitibusque gerit.
     Quis ubi nil agitur, patrias male fortis ad artes
     confugit, et flammas ore sonante vomit;
     quas quotiens proflat, spirare Typhoea credas
     et rapidum Aetnaeo fulgur ab igne iaci.

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   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 11.264–267:

     […] : urit fera corda Menoeceus;
     nulla patri requies, illum quaeritque tenetque;
     illum sanguineos proflantem pectore riuos
     aspicit et saeua semper de turre cadentem.

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   • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.567–572:

     Ac velut ex una siquando nube corusci
     ira Iovis torsit geminos mortalibus ignes
     aut duo cum pariter ruperunt vincula venti
     dantque fugam, sic tunc claustris evasit uterque
     taurus et immani proflavit turbine flammas
     arduus atque atro volvens incendia fluctu.

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   1. (in figurative use):

      irās prōflāre ― to puff and blow, fret, fume

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 9.324–326:

        Sīc memorat uōcemque premit, simul ēnse superbum
        Rhamnētem adgreditur, quī forte tapētibus altīs
        exstrūctus tōtō prōflābat pectore somnum, […]

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      • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 8.9:

        Elephans homine obvio forte in solitudine et simpliciter oberrante clemens placidusque etiam demonstrare viam traditur; idem vestigio hominis animadverso prius quam homine intremescere insidiarum metu, subsistere ab olfactu, circumspectare, iras proflare nec calcare, sed erutum proximo tradere, illum sequenti, simili nuntio usque ad extremum, tunc agmen circumagi et reverti aciemque derigi.

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      • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.434–435:

        flammiferos videt inter regia* tauros
        pascua Tartaream proflantes pectore noctem.

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2. (transitive) to melt, to liquefy by blowing
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 34.20.97:

     Sequens temperatura statuaria est eademque tabularis hoc modo: massa proflatur in primis, mox in proflatum additur tertia portio aeris collectanei, hoc est ex usu coempti. Peculiare in eo condimentum attritu domiti et consuetudine nitoris veluti mansuefacti. Miscentur et plumbi argentarii pondo duodena ac selibrae centenis proflati.

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3. (transitive) to puff out
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.13:

     Denique ipse etiam hilarior pro virili parte, ne praesenti negotio ut alienus discreparem, porrectius auribus proflatisque naribus rudivi fortiter, immo tonanti clamore personui.

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• prōflātus

• “prōflo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prōflō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prōflo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.