procerus

• procerus nasi

Borrowed from Latin prōcērus (“high, tall, long”), clipping of mūsculus prōcērus (“tall muscle”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈsɛə.ɹəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈsɪɹ.əs/

procerus (plural proceri or proceruses)

1. (anatomy) A roughly triangular facial muscle that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and a cartilage in the side of the nose and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead.

   Synonym: (obsolete) pyramidalis nasi

• “procerus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “procerus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• croupers, procures

From Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“toward, forward”) (compare Latin prōvincia) and *ḱer- (“grow”) (compare Latin crescō (“come forth, grow, arise, appear”)). See also Latin sincērus (“genuine, sincere”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈkeː.rus/, [proːˈkeːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈt͡ʃe.rus/, [proˈt͡ʃɛːrus]

prōcērus (feminine prōcēra, neuter prōcērum, comparative prōcērior); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literally) high, tall, lofty, long

   Antonym: imprōcērus

   1. (particularly military) The name of a company of tall soldiers, similar to grenadiers.
2. (transferred sense) (in general) long, extended, elongated, large

First/second-declension adjective.

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