Łacińskie prope – jaka to część mowy?

This paper seeks to revise the description of grammatical properties of the Latin lexeme prope, which are basic to include it in respective classes of words (parts of speech). The change proposed here amounts to saying that beyond the entry prope there are two parts of speech, but they are not adverb and preposition, but adverb and particle. The particle is prope in the sense of almost, nearly – then it occurs in the positive degree, does not manifest rection, is part of syntactic relations with various arts of speech. In the remaining cases prope, most generally it means near (someone/something), is a gradable adverb that govern an obligatory point of reference (in the form of accusative, dative or prepositional phrase a [ab] with ablative). This may, however, give in to a context ellipsis when the recipient has an opportunity to reliably reconstruct it.