Latin

Alternative forms

• praelium

Noun

proelium n ‎(genitive proeliī); second declension

1. a battle, combat, conflict
2. a warrior
3. a contest, strife

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (battle): certāmen, dīmicātiō, pugna

Derived terms

• proeliāris
• proelior

Descendants

• Portuguese: prélio

References

• proelium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proelium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “proelium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to provoke the enemy to battle: proelio (ad pugnam) hostes lacessere, provocare
    
  • to refrain from fighting: supersedere proelio
    
  • to demand loudly the signal to engage: signum proelii (committendi) exposcere (B. G. 7. 19)
    
  • to give the signal to engage: signum proelii dare
    
  • (1) to begin the battle, (2) to give battle: proelium committere
    
  • to engage: proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)
    
  • to give battle: proelium facere
    
  • to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelio equestri contendere
    
  • to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelium equestre facere
    
  • to fight successfully: proelium facere secundum
    
  • to fight successfully: proeliis secundis uti
    
  • to interrupt the battle: proelium intermittere
    
  • to break off the fight: proelium dirimere (B. C. 1. 40)
    
  • to renew the battle with success: proelium restituere
    
  • to begin the fight again: proelium renovare, redintegrare
    
  • to give up the fight: proelium deserere
    
  • to fight a decisive battle: proelio, armis decertare (B. G. 1. 50)
    
  • to take part in the engagement: proelio interesse
    
  • a bloody battle: proelium cruentum, atrox
    
  • a pitched battle: proelium iustum (opp. tumultuarium)
    
  • the lines charge in battle one on another: proelio concurritur (Sall. Iug. 59)
    
  • to fight a pitched, orderly battle with an enemy: iusto (opp. tumultuario) proelio confligere cum hoste (Liv. 35. 4)
    
  • the issue of the battle is undecided: proelium anceps est
    
  • to be defeated in fight, lose the battle: proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedere
    
  • to come off victorious: superiorem (opp. inferiorem), victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere
    
  • to gain a victory, win a battle: proelio vincere