NEAR Copy link • NEAR 1. adj. Close, nigh, propinquus, comparative propinquior and (usually) propior, superlative proximus (in all the senses of the English word): vicinus (of place and resemblance; also, but rarely, of time): finitimus with a dative, similis with a dative or genitive, non alienus with a and an ablative (of resemblance): a near relative, propinqua cognatione conjunctus: to anyone, cum aliquo; genere alicui propinquus; propinqua cognatione alicui junctus or aliquem contingens: a very near relative, proximus cognatione or propinquitate; arta propinquitate conjunctus: a near friend, familiaris; intimus; quo familiariter or intime utor: a near connection, societas propior; necessitudo (between relatives, colleagues, etc.): to be near, prope esse (general term): propinquum or vicinum esse (as to place, time, resemblance): non longe abesse, in propinquo adesse, subesse (as to time and place, to be nearer; propius abesse): appetere (to draw near, of time): to be very near, supra caput esse, in cervicibus esse, in capite et in cervicibus esse (of place or time, persons or events; Vid: Herzog, Sall., Cat., 52, 22): imminere, instare (of time): to be near to death, morti vicinum esse; in vitae discrimine versari; the moment is near in which, etc., prope adest, cum, etc.: to lie near, prope or propinquum jacere or situm esse, prope esse, non longe abesse, subesse (PROP.); facile inveniri posse (figuratively, to be easy to be found, of arguments, etc.): facile intelligi posse (figuratively, to be easily understood): to come near, prope accedere, appropinquare (☞ the former PROP. and figuratively; the latter only PROP.): non multum abesse a, etc., simile esse alicujus (figuratively, of resemblance); e.g., prope accedere ad veritatem; a veritate non multum abesse; veri simile esse: to be near to anyone, non longe abesse ab aliquo (propertly): alicui propinquum esse genere, propinqua cognatione aliquem contingere (as to relationship): familiariter or intime uti aliquo (as a friend): usu cum aliquo conjunctissimum esse, magna mihi cum aliquo necessitudo est, summa necessitudine me aliquis contingit (general term; of connection, as a college friend): I was near = upon the point of, etc., in eo erat (☞ in eo eram is not good), ut, etc. (I intended): prope erat or fuit, ut, etc.: propius nihil factum est, quam ut, etc.; non multum, or non longe, or paullum (☞ not parum) abfuit, quin (☞ not ut), etc. (all = little was wanting, it nearly came to pass that, etc.); e.g., in eo erat ut urbs caperetur; prope fuit ut dictator ille idem crearetur; propius nihil est factum, quam ut occidcretur; haud multum abfuit, quin interficeretur: to draw near (of place), prope accedere; appropinquare, (propius) accedere ad with an accusative: to draiv near a town (of a general at the head of an army), exercitum ad urbem (propius) admovere; (of time, etc.), prope adesse, subesse; appropinquare, appetere: the moment draws near when, etc., prope adest, cum, etc.: to draw near to the eightieth yeat (of one’s age), prope ad octogesimum annum pervenisse: to come near (i. e., resemble), prope accedere ad aliquid; accedere ad similitudinem alicujus rei : 2. adverb and preposition by the ellipsis of “to.” Of place, prope followed by a or ab with an ablative, or by an accusative (☞ only in Nep.; also by a dative, Hann 8, 3): propter (in the neighborhood of): ad (by, at; all these denote nearness, general term): juxta (close to): secundum (along by, denoting direction to a place): to sit near to anybody’s house, prope ab alicujus aedibus sedere: near to a bank, prope ripam (not far from it): secundum ripam (along, by it; e.g., to sail): nearer to, etc., propius ad aliquem or aliquid, or simply propius aliquem or aliquid; or propius ab aliqua re (☞ Only in Nep., with dative, Hann., 8, 3): very near to, proxime followed by a or ab with an ablative, or by an accusative. Of time, prope ad, or simply prope with an accusative; e.g., prope ad annum octogesimum pervenerat. Of number, ad followed by an accusative, or (with the historians) adverbially, with the case which the accompanying verb requires (about, denoting the highest number; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 2, 33; Bremi, Suet., Caes., 20; e.g., near two hundred men, ad ducentos homines: after near four thousand men had been killed, occisis ad hominum millibus quatuor): circiter (about, denoting a proximate number; ☞ not admodum, which is used to denote the whole sum).