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pro-1

1.	a prefix indicating favor for some party, system, idea, etc., without identity with the group (pro-British; pro-Communist; proslavery), having anti- as its opposite.

2.	a prefix of priority in space or time having especially a meaning of advancing or projecting forward or outward, and also used to indicate substitution, attached widely to stems not used as words: provision; prologue; proceed; produce; protract; procathedral; proconsul.

[Origin: < L prō-, pro-, comb. form repr. prō pro¹

]

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pro-2

a prefix identical in meaning with pro-¹, occurring in words borrowed from Greek (prodrome) or formed of Greek (and occasionally Latin) elements.

[Origin: < Gk, comb. form of pró for, before; see pro¹

]

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pro-¹
pref.

Acting in the place of; substituting for: proform.
Supporting; favoring: prorevolutionary.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pro-, prō-, from prō, for; see per¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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pro-²
pref.

1. Earlier; before; prior to: procambium.
2. Rudimentary: pronucleus.
Anterior; in front of: procephalic.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Greek, from pro, before, in front; see per¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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pro-

prefix meaning "before, forward, in favor of, in place of," from L. pro "on behalf of, in place of, before, for," also in some cases from cognate Gk. pro "before, in front of," both from PIE *pro-, extended form of base *por- "forward, through" (cf. Skt. para "beyond," pra- "before, forward, forth;" Gk. paros "before," para- "from beside, against, beyond;" Goth. faura "before," O.E. fore "before, for, on account of," fram "forward, from"). Pro and con is attested from c.1400, short for pro and contra "for and against" (L. pro et contra).

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Pre-\ [L. prae, adv. & prep., before, akin to pro, and to E. for, prep.: cf. F. pr['e]-. See Pro-, and cf. Prior.] A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; pre["e]minent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent. [Written also pr[ae]-.]

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