propero

From properus + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔ.pɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.pe.ro]

properō (present infinitive properāre, perfect active properāvī, supine properātum); first conjugation

1. to hasten, quicken or accelerate
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.763–764:

     Nōn ego tē, quamvīs properābis vincere, Caesar,
     sī vetet auspicium, signa movēre velim.

     I would not want you – although you will hasten to conquer, Caesar – if the auspice forbids [it], to move [your] military standards.

2. to hurry, rush

   Synonyms: currō, ruō, trepidō, accurrō, festīnō, prōripiō, prōvolō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō, prōsiliō

   Antonyms: retardō, cūnctor, moror, dubitō, prōtrahō, trahō, differō

   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Tristia 1.127:

     longa via est, properā!

     The way is long, you [must] hurry!
     (Writing from exile, Ovid addresses his book as if it is a living emissary that he is sending back to Rome.)

3. to repair, return

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

• dēproperō

• “propero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “propero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “propero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he starts in all haste, precipitately: properat, maturat proficisci