PROVE Copy link • PROVETransitively, (1) To show, manifest, evince, significare; ostendere (to show): declarare (to declare, publish; both stronger than the first, cf., Cic., Verr., 2, 60, 148; ad Div., 5, 13, 4): probare, comprobare (so as to convince others of the truth or excellence of a thing): praestare (to fulfil an obligation): to prove one’s obliging disposition to anybody, probare alicui officium suum: to prove anything by act and deed, aliquid praestare re; aliquid comprobare re: to prove one’s self, i. e., to show, etc., se praestare, se praebere, as anybody, aliquem; exhibere aliquem (☞ not se exhibere aliquem); e.g., to prove one’s self the friend of the people, exhibere virum civilem. (2) To show by arguments, docere, especially with argumentis: demonstrare (to give full proof): firmare, confirmare, especially with argumentis (to confirm by arguments): probare alicui aliquid (to prove the possibility of a thing; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 1, 3): efficere (to make out by strict logical proof): vincere, evincere (to prove irrefutably; Vid: Cort., Cic., Ep., 11, 28, 4): to prove to anybody by examples, cum aliquo auctoritatibus agere (Plin., Ep., 1, 20, 4): this will prove that, etc., ejus rei testimonium est, etc.: that is difficult to prove, hoc difficile est probatu: that proves nothing at all, nullum verum id argumentum est: the event proved it, exitus approbavit. (3) To try, put to the proof [Vid: TRY]. Intransitively, fieri: esse; se ostendere; ostendi.