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proprius adj.,

not common with others, own special, several, individual, peculiar, particular, proper: tria praedia Capitoni propria traduntur, as his private property: familia, L.: proprio Marte, by his own bravery, O.: contumelia, i. e. personal insult, L.: omnia, quae nostra erant propria, all that belonged peculiarly to us: suā quādam propriā, non communi oratorum facultate: calamitas propria sua, Cs.: id est cuiusque proprium, quo quisque fruitur, each man's own.—As subst n.: Amittit merito proprium qui alienum appetit, his own . . . another's, Ph.—Personal, individual, peculiar, own: propriā ut Phaedria poteretur, have her for his own, T.: agitur in criminibus Cluenti proprium periculum: libri, H.: Da propriam domum, V.: tempus agendi fuit mihi magis proprium quam ceteris.—Peculiar, characteristic: hoc proprium virtutis existimant, Cs.: oratoris: reliquae partes quales propriae sunt hominis: libertas propria Romani generis.—Appropriate, exact, proper, strict: qui proprio nomine perduellis esset, is hostis vocaretur: vocabula rerum.—Lasting, constant, enduring, permanent: voluptates eorum (deorum), T.: quod ut illi proprium sit atque perpetuum: parva munera diutina, locupletia non propria esse consueverunt, N.: dona, V.; cf. tamquam Sit proprium quidquam, quod Permutet dominos, etc., H.

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