proles

proles

1. plural of prole

• Lopers, Spoerl, lopers, polers, sloper

From pro- + *olēs (“growth”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.leːs/, [ˈproːɫ̪eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.les/, [ˈprɔːles]

prōlēs f (genitive prōlis); third declension

1. offspring, children, progeny, descendants
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.719:

     tollet humō validōs prōlēs Hyriēa lacertōs

     The offspring of Hyrieus will raise from the ground his strong arms
     (See: Hyrieus; Orion (mythology). The heliacal rising of the upper part of Orion (constellation) occurs in June.)

   Synonyms: stirps, stirpis, partus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• prōlētārius

• Catalan: prole
• Italian: prole
• Portuguese: prole
• Spanish: prole

• “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• proles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• prolific in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

proles

1. plural of prole