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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• prevent:
      1. 1. prŏhĭbeo, 2: foll. by direct acc., also by subj. with ne, quominus or acc. and infin.: may the gods p. the evils, dii mala prohibeant, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 10: to p. a thing being done, p. ne quid fiat, Cic. Div. Verr. 10, fin.: I suppose winter has p.'d ..., credo hiemem prohibuisse quominus ..., id. Fam. 12, 5: for the use of infin., cf. Caes. B. G. 7, 38, dolore prohibeor ... pronuntiare: Cic.: Liv. In a negative sentence, use quin: see L. G. § 461.
      2. 2. obsto, impĕdio (to stand in the way; as hindrances or obstacles: while prohibeo is actually to prevent): v. to hinder.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• PREVENT
  • To go before, praevenire: praeire: intervenire (to get the start of).
  • To anticipate, praecipere: anticipare: (ante) occupare. [Vid: ANTICIPATE.]
  • To hinder, impedire aliquid: impedimento esse alicui rei: impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae (general terms): obstare or officere alicui rei alicujus: prohibere [SYN. in HINDER]: non sinere aliquid, or generally non sinere aliquid fieri (οὐκ ἐᾷν τι, not to allow anything, not to let it pass or happen; e.g., the passage over, transitum or transire lion sinere): to prevent anybody from doing anything, prohibere aliquem aliquid facere; aliquem impedire ab aliqua re; impedire ne quis aliquid faciat; non sinere aliquem aliquid facere; aliquem arcere or prohibere aliqua re: to prevent approach to the shore, qra e nave egredi prohibere: nothing prevents our doing it, nihil impedit, quominus hoc faciamus: which you both could and should have prevented, quod et potuisti prohibere ne fieret, et debuisti.