pour
French
prep
Definitions
- for (when followed by a noun or pronoun)
- to (when followed by a verb in the infinitive)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pour inherited from Old French por (for) inherited from Latin *por, prō (for, on behalf of, forward, as, towards, forth, in front of, like, as befitting).
Origin
Latin
prō
Gloss
for, on behalf of, forward, as, towards, forth, in front of, like, as befitting
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
好
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pourboire English
- pro domino English
- *por Latin
- porrum Latin
- pro Latin
- procudo Latin
- prodeo Latin
- profilius Latin
- promitto Latin
- proneptis Latin
- proponere, propono Latin
- prosemino Latin
- prout Latin
- prō Latin
- prōcūrāre Latin
- prōlongāre Latin
- pro German
- pro Italian
- boire French
- ce French
- poireau French
- pourboire French
- pource French
- pourtant French
- promener French
- tant French
- pro Spanish, Castilian
- *per- Proto-Indo-European
- *pro- Proto-Indo-European
- pró Portuguese
- pro Middle English
- por Old French
- porpartie Old French
- porpenser Old French
- porquant Old French
- purposer Old French
- πουρμπουάρ Greek (modern)
- pouor Norman
- pour Norman
- boa Vietnamese
- pour Middle French
- per Old Portuguese
- por Old Portuguese
- por Asturian
- por Old Spanish
- pou Haitian, Haitian Creole
- pou Mauritian Creole