protinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• prōtenus
• prōtinam

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pro- (compare Latin prōcērus) and tenus (“up to, as far as”), from *ten- (“extend”) (compare Latin tendō (“I stretch out”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.ti.nus/, [ˈproːt̪ɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ti.nus/, [ˈprɔːt̪inus]

Adverb

prōtinus (not comparable)

1. immediately, forthwith

   Synonyms: continuō, statim, cōnfestim, extemplō

2. (rare) forward, farther on, onward

   Synonyms: ultrā, ultrō

   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 1:

     Nōn equidem invideō; mīror magis: undique tōtīs
     ūsque adeō turbātur agrīs. Ēn, ipse capellās
     prōtinus aeger agō; hanc etiam vix, Tītyre, dūcō:
     hīc inter dēnsās corylōs modo namque gemellōs,
     spem gregis, ah, silice in nūdā cōnixa relīquit.

     I certainly don't envy you; I am amazed more: everywhere in all
     the fields there's such disturbance. Look, the goats by myself
     I drive forward sick as I am; this one too I am barely leading, Tityrus:
     for here among dense hazels, just now, twin kids,
     the hope of the flock, ah! it abandoned exhausted on bare rock.

3. continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly

   Synonyms: continenter, iūgiter

References

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