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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
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Prefix
[edit]pro-
- similar to
Derived terms
[edit]English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin pro (“in favour of, on behalf of”).
Prefix
[edit]pro-
- agreeing with; supporting; favouring
- 2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Asia & Pacific[2]:
- 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.
- substituting for
Translations
[edit]prefix meaning supporting or favouring
Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin pro- (“forward direction, forward movement”).
Prefix
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Etymology 3
[edit]From Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”).
Prefix
[edit]pro-
Derived terms
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[edit]Antonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pro-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pro-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 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
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]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
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pro-/prů- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
French
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[edit]pro-
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin prō (“in front of”).
Prefix
[edit]pro-
Derived terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- prōd- (prevocalic)
- por- (pre-Classical)
- ꝓ- (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-. Synchronically served as the prefix counterpart to the preposition prō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- pro-
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pro/, [prɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro/, [pro]
- prō-
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proː/, [proː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro/, [prɔː]
Prefix
[edit]prō- or pro-
- forward direction, forward movement
- action directed forward or in front
- prominence
- (prefixed to verbs of utterance) in place of, on behalf of
- bringing into being, forth, or into the open
- (temporally) prior, fore-
- advantage
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pro-” on page 1,463/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pro (“in favour of, on behalf of”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]pro-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pro- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *pro-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]pro-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
- moving through
- pro- + sẹ́vati (“to radiate”) → prosẹ́vati (“to shine through”)
- moving through
Derived terms
[edit]Category Slovene terms prefixed with pro- not found
Spanish
[edit]Prefix
[edit]pro-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pro-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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