Promineo, promines, pen. corr. promínui, prominêre. Plini. To appeare or stande out further than other, or aboue and before other.Vulgus prominet excelsis rectis.Stat.Ante frontem prominent cornua. Plin. Hornes stande out at their foreheade.Prominens cætera acie.Liu.Standing further forth than the residue of the armie.Collis prominet in Pontum.Ouid.Prominere in memoriam ac posteritatem. Li. To extend to the remembrauce of posteritie & those that come after vs.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-mīnĕo, ŭi, 2, v. n., to stand or jut out, be prominent, to overhang, project (not in Cic.; cf. Moser ad Cic. Rep. 3, 7, p. 352ext.; syn.: exsto, emineo). I.Lit.: Phaselis prominet penitus in altum, Liv. 37, 23: collis prominens, id. 27, 48: in pontum, Ov. M. 13, 778: coma prominet in vultus, id. ib. 13, 845: ante frontem, Plin. 8, 32, 50, 176: ursis ungues prominent, id. 8, 36, 54, 126: qui (dentes elephantorum) prominent, id. 11, 37, 62, 165: nemorum coma gelido prominet Algido, Hor C. 1, 21, 6: cum promineret ore, quantum, etc., id. Epod. 5, 35; Val. Fl. 7, 30: matres familiae pectore nudo prominentes, bending forward, Caes. B. G. 7, 47, 5.—II.Trop., to reach out, extend to any thing, come forth: quae (justitia) nec sibi tantum conciliata sit nec occulta, sed foras tota promineat, Cic. Rep. 3, 7, 10: maxima pars ejus (gloriae) in memoriam ac posteritatem promineat, Liv. 28, 43, 5.—Hence, prōmĭnens, entis, P. a., prominent: oculi, Plin. 11, 37, 53, 141: figurae signorum, Vitr 6, 2.— Comp.: prominentiore caudā, Plin. 10, 3, 3, 7.—Subst.: prōmĭnens, entis, n., a prominent part: in prominenti litoris, Tac. A. 1, 53.—Plur.: prominentia montium, Tac. A. 2, 16.—Adv.: prōmĭnenter, in a prominent manner.—Comp.: prominentius a lecto, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 11, 90; id. Tard. 2, 4, 73.