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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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• propensity:
      1. 1. prōclīvĭtas (rare): Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28, where it is used as special term to denote an evil tendency (haec in bonis rebus facilitas, in malis proclivitas nominetur).
      2. 2. cŭpĭdĭtas (a ruling desire, passion): the mind becomes enslaved by an evil p., animus se cupiditate devincit mala, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 34: to have the passions bridled, to control evil p.s, domitas habere libidines, coercere cupiditates, Cic. de Or. 1, 43, extr.: v. desire, passion. (Still stronger than cupiditas is libido: cf. Cic. Off. 2, 24, 84, tanta in eo peccandi libido fuit, such an inordinate propensity or passion for wrong-doing.)
      3. 3. often expr. by adj.: one person has a p. to one vice and another to another, animus alius ad alia vitia propensior, Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 81: to have a p. towards ..., animo esse propenso ad ...: v. inclined. (N.B.--Various evil p.s may be denoted by special terms; as, p. to lying, mendācĭtas; to slander or reviling, maledicentia; to drinking, vinolentia; etc.: where see the names of the several vices.)
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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• PROPENSITY
proclivitas; animus proclivis or propensus ad aliquid; libido alicujus rei. Propensity to satire, acerbitas (as a trait of character; Quint., 10, 1, 117). ☞ The Latins also frequently denote it in compound words by the termination -entia, and the person possessing the propensity by -entus; e.g., propensity to drinking wine, vinolentia; one who has such propensity, vinolentus: propensity to extravagance, prodigentia (Tac., Ann., 6, 14, 1); one that has such propensity, prodigus: to have a propensity to anything, non alienum esse a re (in a good sense): pronum esse ad aliquid or in aliquid (in classical Latin only in a bad sense; not as Suet., Ner., 52, pronum esse ad poeticam). Vid: INCLINATION.