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Proto   /prˈoʊtə/   Listen
Proto

adjective
1.
Indicating the first or earliest or original.



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Proto-Indo European
Proto-Norse
proto-oncogene


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"Proto" Quotes from Famous Books



... other Chinese gods, the proto-being of the God of Wealth, Ts'ai Shen, has been ascribed to several persons. The original and best known until later times was Chao Kung-ming. The accounts of him differ also, but the following is ...
— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner
... shirt, with a pistollike weapon in a shoulder holster under his left arm—no longer Ghullam the high priest of Yat-Zar, but now Stranor Sleth, resident agent on this time-line of the Fourth Level Proto-Aryan Sector for the Transtemporal Mining Corporation. Then he opened a door at the other side of the anteroom and went to the antigrav shaft, stepping over the edge and ...
— Temple Trouble • Henry Beam Piper
... sing you a grand new song evolved from a 'cute young pate, Of a fine old Atom-Molecule of prehistoric date; In size infinitesimal, in potencies though great, And self-formed for developing at a prodigious rate— Like a fine old Atom-Molecule, Of the young world's proto-prime! ...
— The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 • Various


Words linked to "Proto" :   early, combining form, Proto-Indo European


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