Mountain Goat wrote:
Pro noun....
Noun is a naming word.
A pro noun... Uhmm. Pro = professional.
A professional name like a doctor?
From wiktionary:
"From
prō (“instead of”) +
nōmen (“name; in grammar: noun (
sensu lato)”), a calque of Ancient Greek
ἀντωνυμία (antōnumía)"
So "pro" in this case means "instead of".
Interestingly, its relation to
ἀντωνυμία:
ἀντί (anti: "against") +
ὄνυμα (ōnuma: "name") means that it is a calque of a word that also exists as a loanword in english: antonym. Language is weird.
*The more you know*
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Δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν.
Those with power do what their power permits, and the weak can only acquiesce.
- Thucydides