PROPER Copy link • PROPERRight, fit, true, verus (real; opposed to falsus): germanus (genuine). (The words are found in this connection and order.) verus et germanus: justus (right, legitimate). A proper (opposed to a figurative, etc.) word, verbum proprium (opposed to verbum translatum). To denote anything by the proper term or expression, aliquid verbo proprio declarare: Vid: also, FIT. Peculiar, Vid.