promptus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈproːmp.tus/, [ˈproːmpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpromp.tus/, [ˈprɔmpt̪us]

From prōmō (“take or bring forth”) +‎ -tus.

prōmptus m (genitive prōmptūs); fourth declension

1. a taking forth
   1. an exposing to view, a being visible, visibility, in the phrase:

      in promptu esse (habere, ponere) — “to be (make, render) public, open, visible, manifest”

   2. readiness; willingness, zeal, as in the phrases:

      in promptu esse, habere — “to be at hand, to have ready”

      dignare promptus ingeri - "grant zeal to be entered within" (from the hymn Nunc Sancte Nobis)

   3. ease, facility; only in the phrase:

      in promptu esse — “to be easy”

Fourth-declension noun.

Meaning 'ready'

• French: prompt
• Galician: pronto
• Italian: pronto
• Portuguese: pronto
• Sicilian: prontu

Meaning 'already'

• Spanish: pronto

Perfect passive participle of prōmō.

prōmptus (feminine prōmpta, neuter prōmptum); first/second-declension participle

1. produced

First/second-declension adjective.

prōmptus (feminine prōmpta, neuter prōmptum, comparative prōmptior, superlative prōmptissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. manifest, disclosed
2. ready, willing, eager, decided, resolute

   Synonyms: libēns, indubius, certus, fixus, intēnsus, intentus

   Antonyms: invītus, incertus, dubius, suspensus, vagus, anceps

3. quick, prompt

   Synonyms: rapidus, celer, vēlōx, properus, levis, facilis

   Antonyms: lentus, tardus, sērus

4. bold, enterprising

   Synonyms: audāx, audēns

   Antonyms: timidus, pavidus

5. easy, practicable

   Synonym: facilis

   Antonym: difficilis

First/second-declension adjective.

• imprōmptus

• French: prompt, prompte
  • → English: prompt
• Galician: pronto
• Italian: pronto
• Portuguese: pronto
• Spanish: pronto

• “promptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “promptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• promptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• promptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a ready tongue: lingua promptum esse
    
  • to be humorously inclined: animo prompto esse ad iocandum
    
  • it is clear, evident: hoc in promptu est