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

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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prōstĭtūtē: adverbial

prōstĭtūte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

• prō-stĭtŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [statuo].
  1. I. To place before or in front, Arn. 5, 177. —
  2. II. To expose publicly to prostitution, to prostitute: cras populo prostituam vos, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 45; Sen. Contr. 1, 2: quae (meretrix) sese toto corpore prostituit, Cat. 110, 8: pudicitiam suam, Suet. Ner. 29; Lact. 3, 21, 6: formam, Petr. 126: faciem suam lucro, Ov. Am. 1, 10, 42: corpora libidinibus, Lact. 5, 9, 16; 1, 20, 15: virgines, Just. 21, 3, 2.—
    1. B. Transf.: famam alicujus, to prostitute, dishonor, sully, Cato ap. Gell. 17, 13, 4: ingrato vocem foro, Ov. Am. 1, 15, 5.—Hence, prōstĭtūtus, a, um, P. a., exposed publicly, prostituted: infans, Mart. 9, 7, 7 P.—Sup.: prostitutissima lupa Larentina, Tert. Apol. 25.—Subst.: prōstĭtūta, ae, f., a harlot, prostitute, Plin. 30, 1, 5, § 15; 10, 63, 83, § 172; Sen. Ben. 7, 4, 7 sq.; Suet. Calig. 36; 40; Lact. 1, 10, 15; 3, 22, 8; Vulg. Baruch, 6, 10.—
    2. B. Trop., unchaste: sermones prostituti ac theatrales, Sid. Ep. 3, 13 fin.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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prōstĭtūtē: adverbial

prōstĭtūte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

• prōstĭtŭō, ī, ūtum, ĕre, tr. (pro, statuo), placer devant, en avant, exposer aux yeux : Pl. Ps. 178 ; Arn. 5, 177 || prostituer : Catul. 110, 8 ; pudicitiam suam Suet. Nero 29, se prostituer || [fig.] déshonorer, salir, prostituer : Cat. d. Gell. 17, 3, 4 ; vocem Ov. Am. 1, 15, 5, prostituer son éloquence.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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prōstĭtūtē: adverbial

prōstĭtūte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg

PROSTITVO ui, ûtum, ere. [προάγω, προαγωγεύω] In aperto siue publico statuere, in primis turpitudinis perpetiendae causa. […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• prostitute (subs.):
      1. 1. scortum (a person of either sex serving for lust: a gross term): a notorious p., nobile s., Liv. 39, 9: Cic.: Hor.
      2. 2. mĕretrix, īcis, f. (milder term): Hor. S. 1, 2, 58: the commonest p.s, vulgatissimae m., Suet. Dom. 22: Cic.
      3. 3. prostĭbŭlum (rare): Pl.: Arn.
      4. 4. prostĭtūta: Plin. 39, 2, 5. Phr.: a common p., (femina) vulgato corpore, Liv. 1, 4: to be a p., corpore quaestum facere, Pl. Poen. 5, 3, 21: cf. Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 52, quaestum occipere (to take to prostitution); also, prostare, Suet. Tib. 43; meretricium facere, Suet. Cal. 42.
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• prostitute (v.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. vulgo, 1: to p. the body for hire, corpus pretio v., Aur. Vict. Orig. ad fin.: Liv. 1, 4.
      2. 2. publĭco, 1: Pl. Bac. 4, 7, 22.
      3. 3. prostĭtuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to expose for hire): to p. oneself, p. pudicitiam suam, Suet. Ner. 29: Ov. Am. 1, 10, 42 (p. faciem suam lucro). (Softened expr., parum honeste pudicitiam habere, Sall. Cat. 14: cf. ib. 13, pudicitiam in propatulo habere, i. e. expose it for sale.)
      4. 4. to p. oneself, prosto, stĭti, stātum, 1: Juv. 1, 47: Sen. Contr.
    2. II. To devote to base uses: Phr.: he p.d his talents to the praise of a tyrant, *bonum ingenium suum turpiter ad tyrannum laudibus extollendum contulit: see also to disgrace.
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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• PROSTITUTE
1. s. meretrix; scortum; meritorium scortum (one who prostitutes herself for pay; scortum, a lower, more dissolute meretrix; but both these are above prostibula and lupae): prostibulum: mulier omnibus proposita: scortum vulgare: meretrix vulgatissima (common prostitute): mulier quae domum omnium libidinibus patefecit; also, quaestuaria (sc. mulier, Sen., who lives by the wages of prostitution). The son of a common prostitute, ex vulgato corpore genitus: to turn a common prostitute, plane se in vita meretricia collocate: to be or lead the life of a (common) prostitute, corpus vulgo publicare (Plaut.): vita institutoque esse meretricio: meretricio more vivere: se omnibus pervulgare: pudicitiam in propatulo habere (Sall.).
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  • v. PROP., publicare (e.g., corpus, pudicitiam).
  • Figuratively, dehonestare; dedecorare; also by habere se venalem, or habere venalia; e.g., omnia habet venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, veritatem, officium (Cic. Verr., 3, 62, 144).