PROMPT Copy link • PROMPT 1. adj., celer (quick, expeditious): promtus, expeditus (ready). 2. v. To help by secret instruction, suggerere alicui aliquid: suggerere, si aliquem memoria deficit: subjicere alicui verba (the latter, of the theatrical “prompter,” or of one who acts like him). To incite, instigate, insusurrare (to whisper in anybody’s ears, alicui or ad aurem [confidentially] or in aures [clandestinely], Cic.).