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It is [[inh|fro|por]], [[inh|la-lat|pōr]], from Latin [[m|la|prō|t=before, in front of; for, on behalf of; instead of]] by metathesis of the “r”, perhaps helped by [[m|la|per]] (whence [[par]]).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005) Classical Latin already had a preverb “por-” of the same family, as in [[m|la|porrigō|t=to stretch out]] and [[m|la|portendō|t=to foretell]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) “Prō” meant “forward, in front of”; the idea of something left behind gave “in defence of, in favour of”, then the senses of cause, substitution (“instead of, as”) and proportion, and in Christian writers of the 3rd century that of purpose.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)
− The preposition exists only in northern France, the Iberian Peninsula ([[es|por]], [[pt|por]]) and Logudorese Sardinian, Italian and Old Occitan use [[it|per]] instead.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) As a preverb “pro-” has relatives in Italic, Celtic, [[got|𐍆𐍂𐌰-|tr=fra-]] and [[sa|प्र-|tr=pra-]], and as a preposition in [[grc|πρό|tr=pró]].^(DHLF 1992)
+ The preposition exists only in northern France, the Iberian Peninsula ([[es|por]], [[pt|por]]) and Logudorese Sardinian.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Italian and Old Occitan use [[it|per]] instead.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) As a preverb “pro-” has relatives in Italic, Celtic, [[got|𐍆𐍂𐌰-|tr=fra-]] and [[sa|प्र-|tr=pra-]], and as a preposition in [[grc|πρό|tr=pró]].^(DHLF 1992)
==Earliest recorded meaning==