different between pro vs dro

Translingual

Etymology

from Provençal, with the final o for old. Compare fro.

Symbol

pro

1. ISO 639 code for Old Provençal / Old Occitan.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English pro, from Latin pr? (“on behalf of”).

Noun

pro (plural pros)

1. An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).

   Synonyms: advantage, plus, upside

   Antonyms: con, disadvantage, downside, minus

2. A person who supports a concept or principle.

   Antonym: anti

Derived terms

• pros and cons

Translations

Preposition

pro

1. In favor of.

   Antonym: anti

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of professional.

Noun

pro (plural pros)

1. A professional sportsman.
2. (colloquial) Professional.

Derived terms

• pro-am

Translations

Adjective

pro (comparative more pro, superlative most pro)

1. Professional.

Etymology 3

Clipping of prostitute.

Noun

pro (plural pros)

1. (slang) A prostitute.
   • 1974, "Fynn" (Sydney Hopkins), Mister God, This Is Anna

     Millie was one of the dozen or so pros who had a house at the top of the street.

Etymology 4

Clipping of proproctor

Noun

pro (plural pros)

1. (Britain, slang, archaic) A proproctor.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• OPr., POR, ROP, RPO

Catalan

Noun

pro m (plural pros)

1. pro; benefit; bonus

Preposition

pro

1. pro, for; in favour of

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro/

Etymology 1

Preposition

pro + accusative

1. for

Etymology 2

Noun

pro n

1. pro (advantage)

   Synonym: klad

   Antonyms: proti, zápor

Further reading

• pro in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pro in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro/
• Hyphenation: pro

Preposition

pro

1. caused by, because of, owing to, due to
2. motivated by, for the sake of, on account of, for
3. in exchange for

See also

• per
• por

French

Etymology

Clipping of professionnel(le).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o/

Adjective

pro (plural pros)

1. (informal) professional

   Il est très pro.

Noun

pro m or f (plural pros)

1. (informal) professional

   Elle est une vraie pro.

2. (informal) a whiz, someone who is very good at something

   Nous avons affaire à un pro !

Further reading

• “pro” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

Latin pr? (“for”)

Preposition

pro (+ accusative or dative)

1. per, each

   Synonyms: je, für

Usage notes

• Followed by a noun in either the accusative or dative case. No semantic distinction is made between the cases here. Examples from Duden:

• When used in a Latin phrase, the ablative is used according to the rules of Latin grammar: pars pro toto or Pars pro Toto, and pro forma or pro Forma.

Derived terms

• pro Kopf

Further reading

• “pro” in Duden online

Ido

Preposition

pro

1. because of

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pro]
• Hyphenation: pro

Etymology 1

From learned borrowing from Latin pro.

Adjective

pro (plural pro-pro)

1. (colloquial) pro, in favor of.

   Synonym: setuju

2. more.

   Synonym: lebih

Etymology 2

From clipping of profesional (“professional”).

Noun

pro (first-person possessive proku, second-person possessive promu, third-person possessive pronya)

1. Clipping of profesional (“professional”)..

Further reading

• “pro” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Preposition

pro

1. for, to

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin pr? (“for, on behalf of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?/, [pr??], /pro/, [pr?o]
• Rhymes: -?, -o

Preposition

pro

1. (archaic) for, in favour of

Related terms

• pro capite (pro-capite, procapite)

Noun

pro m (invariable)

1. (dated) good, benefit, advantage, weal
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto II, p. 29, vv. 109-111:

     Al mondo non fur mai persone ratte ¶ a far lor pro o a fuggir lor danno, ¶ com'io, dopo cotai parole fatte.

     Never were persons in the world so swift ¶ to work their weal and to escape their woe, ¶ as I, after such words as these were uttered.

2. pro (as in English “pros and cons”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pro.

Noun

pro m (invariable)

1. (slang) pro

Ladin

Noun

pro m (plural pro)

1. good; benefit; advantage

Latin

Alternative forms

• por- (ante-classical)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pro-, o-grade of *per-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pro?/, [p?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro/, [p??]

Preposition

pr? (+ ablative, accusative) (accusative in Late Latin)

1. for
2. on behalf of, in the interest of, for the sake of
3. before
4. in front, instead of
5. about
6. according to
7. as, like
8. as befitting

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sardinian: pro, po
• Vulgar Latin: *por (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: pro
• ? German: pro
• ? Portuguese: pró

References

• pro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• pro in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o?/
  • Rhymes: -o?

Preposition

pro

1. per

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin pr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??/

Noun

pro

1. (Late Middle English, rare) advantage, benefit, upside

Descendants

• English: pro

References

• “pr?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-10.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pru/

Preposition

pro

1. enough

   N'i a pro. - There is enough (of it).

2. quite

   Una rauba pro polida. - A quite pretty dress.

Old French

Etymology 1

Preposition

pro

1. (very early Old French) Alternative form of por

Etymology 2

From Late Latin pr?de. Doublet of preu.

Alternative forms

• prut
• prod
• preu
• prou

Noun

pro m (nominative singular pro)

1. profit, advantage

Descendants

• French: prou (in the idiom peu ou prou)

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin pr?de (“useful”), perhaps via Old Occitan pro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?o]

Noun

pro f (usually uncountable)

1. usefulness, advantage, benefit
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v.

Related terms

• por

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /p?u/

Contraction

pro

1. (colloquial) contraction of para (“for”) + o (“the”)

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• po (campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin pro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro/

Preposition

pro

1. for

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?o/, [?p?o]

Etymology 1

A recent Latinism, borrowed from Latin pr?; see above. Doublet of por.

Preposition

pro

1. pro, in favor of, for

Usage notes

Equivalent to, and often replaced with, en pro de (see en, de) or a favor de (see a, favor).

Etymology 2

A very recent anglicism, borrowed from English pro.

Noun

pro m or f (plural pros)

1. pro (professional)

Adjective

pro (plural pro or pros)

1. pro (professional)

Volapük

Preposition

pro

1. for

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of hydroponic.

Noun

dro (uncountable)

1. (slang) Marijuana grown hydroponically.
   • 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:

     They upset for sho', cause they think they know / That they catching me with plenty of the drank and dro

Anagrams

• D. Or., Dor, Dor., ODR, Ord, RDO, Rod, d'or, dor, ord, rod

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o/

Noun

dro

1. earth, soil

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?De’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Ligurian

Etymology

de (“of”) +? ro (“the”, masculine singular determinative article)

Contraction

dro

1. Obsolete form of do: of the (masculine singular)

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?o/, [d?o?]

Verb

dro

1. second-person singular imperative of droen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drog

Verb

dro

1. simple past of dra

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dro?/

Noun

dro

1. Soft mutation of tro.

Verb

dro

1. Soft mutation of tro.

Mutation