pro-

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pro-

1. similar to

• ꝓ- (abbreviation, obsolete)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Latin pro (“in favour of, on behalf of”).

pro-

2. 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 19 April 2023, 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.

4. substituting for

• (substituting for): pro-form, pronoun, pro-sentence; pro-drop

From Latin pro- (“forward direction, forward movement”).

pro-

2. forward movement
   • progress compared to regress

From Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”).

pro-

2. earlier; prior
4. (biology) precursor (molecule)

   Coordinate term: prepro-

6. rudimentary
8. in front of

• ante-, anti-
• counter-
• per-
• post-

• “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

• RPO, opr., ROP, orp, OPr., POR

• IPA^(key): [pro ]

pro-

1. through
2. 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

3. (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

• prů-

• pro-/prů- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

pro-

1. pro-

Borrowed from Latin prō (“in front of”).

pro-

1. pro-

• prōd- (prevocalic)
• por- (pre-Classical)
• ꝓ- (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)

From Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-. Synchronically served as the prefix counterpart to the preposition prō.

pro-

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pro]

prō-

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈproː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː]

prō- or pro-

1. forward direction, forward movement

   prō- + clīvus + -is → prōclīvis

   ‎prōd- + ‎eō → ‎prōdeō

   ‎prō- + ‎gradior → ‎prōgredior

   1. downward and forward movement

      prō- + flīgō + -ō → prōflīgō

      ‎prō- + ‎terō → ‎prōterō

2. action directed forward or in front

   ‎prō- + ‎pugnō → ‎prōpugnō

   ‎prō- + ‎tegō → ‎prōtegō

3. prominence

   ‎prō- + ‎*mineō → ‎prōmineō

   ‎prō- + ‎pendeō → ‎prōpendeō

4. (prefixed to verbs of utterance) in place of, on behalf of

   ‎prō- + ‎clāmō → ‎prōclāmō

   ‎prō- + ‎loquor → ‎prōloquor

5. bringing into being, forth, or into the open

   ‎prō- + ‎creō → ‎prōcreō

   ‎prō- + ‎gignō → ‎prōgignō

   ‎prō- + ‎*olēs → ‎prōlēs

   ‎prō- + ‎emō → ‎prōmō

6. (temporally) prior, fore-

   ‎pro- + ‎avus → ‎proavus

   ‎prō- + ‎rogō → ‎prōrogō

   ‎prō- + ‎videō → ‎prōvideō

7. advantage

   ‎prō- + ‎cūrō → ‎prōcūrō

   ‎prō- + ‎faciō → ‎prōficiō

   ‎prō(d)- + ‎sum → ‎prōsum

• “pro-” on page 1,463/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Learned borrowing from Latin prō-.

• IPA^(key): /prɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
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pro-

1. pro-

• pro- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Slavic *pro-.

• IPA^(key): /prɔ-/

pro-

1. Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
   1. moving through

      ‎pro- + ‎sẹ́vati (“to radiate”) → ‎prosẹ́vati (“to shine through”)

pro-

1. pro-

• “pro-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024