prop (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. cŏlūmen, ĭnis, n. (gable-prop, mainstay)2. pĕdāmen, pĕdāmentum (for vines to climb)3. admĭnĭcŭlum (more elegant term = pedamen)4. stătūmen, ĭnis, n. (any kind of "upright")II. Fig. • prop (subs.): I. Lit.: 1. cŏlūmen, ĭnis, n. (gable-prop, mainstay): Vitr. 4, 2, init. 2. pĕdāmen, pĕdāmentum (for vines to climb): Varr. 1, 8: Col. 3. admĭnĭcŭlum (more elegant term = pedamen): Cic. N. D. 2, 47, init. 4. stătūmen, ĭnis, n. (any kind of "upright"): Col. 4, 16, med. (= pedamentum): cf. ib. 6, 19. II. Fig.: main support: cŏlūmen: the p. of a family, c. familiae, Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 57: Cic.: Hor. Join: caput columenque [Romani imperii], Liv. 38, 51. Also praesĭdium may serve: cf. Hor. Od. 1, 1, 2. Phr.: he is the only p. of the whole family, solus omnem familiam sustentat, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 35: who is regarded as the p. of the portico, qui fulcire putatur porticum Stoicorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 24, 75. (Not adminiculum in this sense.)
prop (v.) Copy link Outline 1. fulcio, si, ltum, 42. pĕdo, 1 (in horticulture)3. expr. to be p.'d by, innītor, subnītor (as it were, to lean upon • prop (v.): 1. fulcio, si, ltum, 4: to p. a vine, vitem f., Cic. Sen. 15, 52: Atlas who p.s up the heavens with his head, Atlas coelum qui vertice f., Virg. Aen. 4, 247. Comp. suffulcio, 4 (to support from beneath): Lucr.: Mart. 2. pĕdo, 1 (in horticulture): to p. vines, vineas p., Col. 4, 12, init. 3. expr. to be p.'d by, innītor, subnītor (as it were, to lean upon: poet.): temples p.'d on columns vast, templa vastis innixa columnis, Ov. Pont. 3, 2, 49: so, subnixus, Cic. Rep. 6, 20. (N.B.--These two verbs are chiefly used in present sense, in p. part.; subnixus mostly fig.: v. relying on.)
PROP Copy link • PROP 1. s. PROP., statumen: pedamen: pedamentum; adminiculum (for a vine). Figuratively, Support, columen (especially of persons on whom others depend): firmamentum (that gives stability to anything): praesidium (safeguard): subsidium (aid, assistance): munimentum (defence): (tamquam) adminiculum. 2. v. PROP., fulcire: adminiculari: statuminare (by building, etc., underneath): pedare (of trees). To be propped up by anything, niti, inniti aliqua re. Figuratively, fulcire; praesidio esse. To prop one’s self up on anything, inniti aliqua re; confidere alicui re or aliqua re.