Daily Ancestorproles
Proles is Latin for "offspring" or "children," the word behind sine prole (without children).
Proles means offspring, children or descendants. It appears in phrases such as sine prole (without children) and prole legitima (legitimate offspring).
In inheritance language it covers all of a person's children, not just sons. Variants like proles mascula narrow it to male children, which mattered where property passed through sons.
As seen in a recordNote in a Latin pedigree
decessit sine prole legitima
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