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Prefix
pro-
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English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Derived from Latin prō (“in favor of, on behalf of”).
Prefix
pro-
- agreeing with; supporting; favouring
2017 June 16, Doug Criss and Ellie Kaufman, “School issues new yearbooks after Trump’s name is removed from photos”, in CNN[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 3 August 2019:A New Jersey high school will issue new yearbooks after pro-Trump slogans and logos were removed from photos that some students submitted.
2017 August 29, Andrew Kaczynski, “Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks’ Assange on DNC hack”, in CNN[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 25 August 2019:Rohrabacher, who is considered to be among the most pro-Russia members in Congress, met with Assange earlier this month and claims Assange told him that Russia was not involved in the hacking.
2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2023, Asia & Pacific:Police said that 289 people had been arrested, mostly for unlawful assembly. One woman was arrested in the Kowloon district of Yau Ma Tei on charges of assault and spreading pro-independence slogans, the police department said on its Facebook page. It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.
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Translations
prefix meaning supporting or favouring Etymology 2
Proto-Indo-European *pro- English pro- Learned borrowing from Latin prō- (“forward direction, forward movement”).
Prefix
pro-
- forward movement
Etymology 3
Derived from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”).
Prefix
pro-
- earlier; prior
- (biology) precursor (molecule)
- Coordinate term: prepro- (coordinate as types of precursors; also, many prepro- forms are holonymous to pro- forms)
- rudimentary
- in front of
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Antonyms
Further reading
- “pro-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pro-”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “pro-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “pro-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *pro- Czech pro- Inherited from Old Czech pro-, from Proto-Slavic *pro-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
pro-
- through
- forms a perfective verb and makes the verb transitive, the direct object is related to money or time
- pro- + pít (“to drink”) → propít (“to spend sth on drinking”)
- pro- + bulet → probulet
- pro- + podnikat → propodnikat
- pro- + večírkovat → provečírkovat
- (pro- + imperfective base + se) + direction forms a perfective verb and changes the sense of motion from literal to fictive
- pro- + zdravit → prozdravit se
- pro- + rvát → prorvat se
- pro- + kouřit → prokouřit se
- pro- + žvanit → prožvanit se
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See also
Further reading
- pro-/prů- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Danish
Etymology
From Latin prō.
Prefix
pro-
- pro-
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References
French
Pronunciation
Prefix
pro-
- pro-
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prō (“in front of”).
Prefix
pro-
- pro-
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *pro- Latin pro- From Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-. Synchronically served as the prefix counterpart to the preposition prō.
Pronunciation
Prefix
prō- or pro-
- forward direction, forward movement
- prō- + clīvus + -is → prōclīvis
- prōd- + eō → prōdeō
- prō- + gradior → prōgredior
- downward and forward movement
- prō- + flīgō + -ō → prōflīgō
- prō- + terō → prōterō
- action directed forward or in front
- prō- + pugnō → prōpugnō
- prō- + tegō → prōtegō
- prominence
- prō- + *mineō → prōmineō
- prō- + pendeō → prōpendeō
- (prefixed to verbs of utterance) in place of, instead of, on behalf of
- prō- + clāmō → prōclāmō
- prō- + loquor → prōloquor
- bringing into being, forth, or into the open
- prō- + creō → prōcreō
- prō- + gignō → prōgignō
- prō- + *olēs → prōlēs
- prō- + emō → prōmō
- (temporally) prior, fore-
- pro- + avus → proavus
- prō- + rogō → prōrogō
- prō- + videō → prōvideō
- advantage
- prō- + cūrō → prōcūrō
- prō- + faciō → prōficiō
- prō(d)- + sum → prōsum
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References
Polish
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *pro- Polish pro- Learned borrowing from Latin prō-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔ
- Syllabification: pro-
Prefix
pro-
- pro-
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pro-”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pro-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
pro-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
- moving through
- pro- + sẹ́vati (“to radiate”) → prosẹ́vati (“to shine through”)
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *pro- Spanish pro- Learned borrowing from Latin prō-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾo/ [pɾo]
- Syllabification: pro-
Prefix
pro-
- pro-
Derived terms
Further reading
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