Associations to the word «Proto»

Wiktionary

PROTO, adjective. Prototypical; preceding the proper beginning of something

Dictionary definition

PROTO, adjective. Indicating the first or earliest or original; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope