A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

prostans,-antis (part.B): projecting, standing out, standing forth; conspicuous, easily seen, easily noticed [> L. prosto,-stiti,-statum, 1., to project, to stand out or forth, project; (of a seller) to offer one’s wares for sale, carry on one’s business; (of wares) to be set out or exposed for sale (Lewis & Short)];

prostat: third-person singular present active indicative of prōstō, [he/she] it stands out, projects; it is conspicuous; [he/she] sets out for sale or purchase.

- liber prostat, a book set out for sale.

- [fungi] Obs. Civium ambiguorum in genere locupletissimo haud exigua prostat cohors: e quibus memoratu digniores ad calcem Sectionum suarum enumeramus (S&A), Observation. A cohort [i.e. division] hardly poor in numbers stands out in a genus richest in ambiguous constituents: from which the more worthy of mention we enumerate at the endnote of its own Section.

prostant: third-person plural present active indicative: they stand out, they project; they are conspicuous; they offer or set out (for purchase).

- (Astacus; crayfish or crab] cornua, & appendices, quae ori prostant, mineaceo colore splendens, chelae maiores in hoc, longioresque, quam in priore, & paucioribus tuberculis, denticulatae intus exiguis tuberculis (Ulysse Aldrovandi), the horns and appendages, which project from the head [or mouth], glittering with a mineaceous [i.e. vermillion, fiery red] color, in this [sc. creature] the chelae are larger, and longer, than in the earlier one, and with fewer tubercles, denticulate on the inside with a few tubercles.

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- [alga] Spyridia clavulata nob. fronde subregulariter dichotoma filiformi geniculis prostantibus ciliatis, internodiis hexaèdre areolatis (Agardh), our Sp. clavulata with the frond somewhat regularly dichotomous, filiform, with the genicula projecting, ciliate, with the internodes hexagonally areolate.

- (algae) frondes membranaceo-corneae, cellulis aut filis periphericis in stratum compactum coalescentibus, Favellidia semiprostantia(Agardh), the fonds membranaceous to having the texture of horn, with the peripheral cells or filaments coalescent into a compact layer, the favellidia somewhat projecting.

- [algae] frondes subregulariter dichotomae, furca apicis patula, articulatae articulis diametro 3plo longioribus, geniculis prostantibus verticillo ciliorum minutissimorum cinctis (Agardh), the fronds nearly uniformly dichotomous, with the fork of the apex spreading, jointed, with the joints 3 times longer than the diameter, with the little knees [i.e. nodes] projecting, bound by a verticil of the tiniest cilia.

2. ((of a seller) to offer one’s wares for sale, carry on one’s business; syn. propono;

prostat (+ venalis,-e (adj.B)), [sg.] offer for sale, purchase.

prostant (venales,-ium (pl. adj.B)): [pl.] offer for sale, purchase.

venalis,-e (adj.B), q.v., pl. venales,-ium: of or belonging to selling, to be sold, for sale, purchasable.

- liber prostat venalis, a book set out for sale.

- “prostat venalis apud T. Payne et filium, [offered] for sale at the shop of T. Payne and Son” (Maxwell).

- “vaenales prostant ex officina Henr. Knox, [offered] for sale at the office of Henry Knox” (Maxwell).

- Londini: Typis Mariae Clark: Prostant apud Henricum Faithorne & Joannem Kersey ad insigne Rosae in Coemeterio D. Pauli, & e regione aedium Bedfordiensium in vico ‘the Strand’ dicto (Ray); in London: at the print-shop of Maria Clark: sold [i.e. offered for sale] at the establishment of Henry Faithorne & Joannes Kersey at the sign of the Rose in the Cemetery of Saint Paul, and from the district of the [print-] shops of Bedford, in the quarter called ‘the Strand.’