protophysics, protometal, protoword
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Proto-
//pɹoʊ.toʊ//
Synonyms for "proto-" (9 found)
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coordinate
7 entriesderived
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
38 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- վաղնջա prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Bengali
1 entries- প্রত্ন prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Chinese
1 entries- 原始 prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 原始 prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 原 prefix (first)
- 原始 prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Czech
2 entries- pra prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- proto prefix (first)
Dutch
1 entries- proto prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Esperanto
2 entries- pra prefix (first)
- pra prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Finnish
3 entries- ensi prefix (first)
- kanta prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- proto prefix (first)
French
2 entries- proto prefix (first)
- proto prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Galician
2 entries- proto prefix (first)
- proto prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
German
2 entries- ur prefix (first)
- ur prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Hindi
2 entries- आदि prefix (first)
- आदिम prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Hungarian
2 entries- alap prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- ős prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Malay
2 entries- proto prefix (first)
- purba prefix (first)
Polish
3 entries- pra prefix (first)
- pra prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- proto prefix (chemistry)
Portuguese
2 entries- prot prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- proto prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Russian
2 entries- пра prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- прото prefix (first)
Swedish
2 entries- ur prefix (first)
- ur prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Turkish
3 entries- ana prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- proto prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
- ön prefix ((linguistics) ancestor of a family of languages)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.
Source: wiktionary
In many ways, both good and bad, he was a proto-Justin Bieber—a teenage dream to be bought and sold, with what would turn out to be very little regard for his own humanity.
Source: wiktionary
protograph, protolacteal, prototype, protoplasm
Source: wiktionary
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