proprium

[ proh-pree-uhm ]
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noun,plural pro·pri·a [proh-pree-uh]. /ˈproʊ pri ə/. Logic.
  1. a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.

Origin of proprium

1
First recorded in 1540–60; from Latin: literally, “special feature, property, possession,” noun use of adjective proprius “one’s own, special,” used to translate Aristotelian tò ídion “characteristic property (of a species)”; see proper, idio

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How to use proprium in a sentence

  • It will have naught to do with ideas that cannot verify themselves by showing themselves in propria persona.

  • Round the completed follicle a very delicate membrana propria folliculi appears to be present.

  • Quo nolente, propria ipsius uoluntate puell clanculo eam raptam sociauit sibi.

    Beowulf | R. W. Chambers
  • Deletis igitur et confusis hostibus, Offa cum ingenti triumpho ac tripudio et gloria reuertitur ad propria.

    Beowulf | R. W. Chambers
  • Hos globos ad Mathematicas artes promovendas manu propria à se caelatas luculentissime dedicat consacratque Jodocus Hondius ann.

    Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II | Edward Luther Stevenson

British Dictionary definitions for proprium

proprium

/ (ˈprəʊprɪəm) /


noun
  1. Also called: property logic obsolete an attribute that is not essential to a species but is common and peculiar to it

Origin of proprium

1
C16: Latin, neuter sing of proprius proper, own

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