propitius

From pro- plus an element possibly derived from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”), so that the original meaning was "falling or rushing forward", hence "eager, well-disposed". Compare Ancient Greek προπετής (propetḗs, “inclined forward”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈpi.ti.us/, [prɔˈpɪt̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈpit.t͡si.us/, [proˈpit̪ː͡s̪ius]

propitius (feminine propitia, neuter propitium); first/second-declension adjective

1. favorable, well-disposed, kind
2. propitious

First/second-declension adjective.

• propitiō

• → English: propitious
• → Italian: propizio
• → French: propice
• → Catalan: propici
• → Portuguese: propício
• → Romanian: propice
• → Spanish: propicio

• “propitius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “propitius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• propitius 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)
• propitius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the favour of heaven: dei propitii (opp. irati)
    
• “propitious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.