pro-, por-

1. To be an omen or warning of; foreshadow; presage [to stretch forward].
2. To be an indication of; signify.

1. Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate event; omen.
2. A portending; a significance.

For the good of humankind [mankind].

Motto of The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.

For the public good.

The full phrase for the expression of pro bono in English. There are some attorneys who devote a portion of their working time to legal cases in which they represent the poor or seek redress for public grievances, and a necessary condition of true pro bono work requires forgoing one's customary professional fees.

1. Any tubular extension of the head or mouth parts; especially, one used for feeding.

An elephant's trunk, perhaps the best known example, is a long muscular elongation of the upper lip and nose. It is used for transferring food to the mouth, and for sucking up water, which is then squirted into the mouth.

The end of the trunk has a pair of nostrils and also finger-like lobes, which can pick up small objects.

2. The slender tubular feeding and sucking structure of some insects (moths or butterflies) and worms.
3. In general, a proboscis is an elongated appendage of a living organism.

The most common usage is to refer to the tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms, and mollusks.

4. The term is used for primate organs as well: an elongated human nose, especially a prominent one, is sometimes called a proboscis (as a joke) and the Proboscis Monkey is named for its enormous nose.

1. A mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings.
2. A particular course of action intended to achieve a result; an established or correct method of doing something: "We had to follow a procedure for completing our tax form."
3. A process or series of acts; especially, of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; any means of doing or accomplishing something.
4. Etymology: "fact" or "manner of proceeding", from French procédure, "manner of proceeding"; from Old French proceder, from Latin procedere, "to go forward, to advance"; from pro-, "forward" + cedere, "to go".

1. To move ahead; to travel onward in time or space.
2. To go on or forward; especially, after a stop or interruption.
3. To begin and to carry on an action or process.
4. To bring legal action against someone.
5. Etymology: from Old French proceder, from Latin procedere "to go forward, to advance; from pro-, "forward" + cedere, "to go, to leave".

1. A series of continuous actions directed toward a specific objective which bring about a particular result, end, or condition."
2. A series of natural occurrences that produce change or development.
3. The entire proceedings in a lawsuit.
4. A summons or writ ordering someone to appear in court.
5. In biology, a part that naturally grows on or sticks out on an organism.
6. Etymology: "fact of being carried on"; that is "in process", from Old French proces, "journey"; from Latin processus, "process, advance, progress"; from the past participle stem of procedere, "to go forward".

1. A natural tendency to behave in a particular way.
2. A natural inclination, or tendency, to behave in a certain way; often objectionable or immoral.
3. Etymology: from Latin proclivitatem, proclivitas, "a tendency, propensity" from proclivis, "prone to"; literally, "sloping", from pro-, "forward" + clivus, "a slope".

Other meanings include: inclination, predisposition, propensity, tendency, penchant, and affinity.

Proclivity means someone is prone to doing or behaving in a certain way, as if leaning toward it. It differs from the word propensity in that proclivity is more of a natural or innate tendency and propensity is a general tendency.

Proclivity can also be a more negative tendency and is similar to penchant, which is a synonym that denotes both positive and negative tendencies.

The result of not getting around to getting something completed.

1. To produce offspring (children) by reproduction.
2. To beget and to conceive (offspring).
3. To produce or to create; to originate.
4. To create or to produce something.

1. A person (or people) with exceptional talents or powers: "She surprised her parents with her math prodigy."
2. An act or event so extraordinary or rare as to inspire wonder.
3. An impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality.
4. An unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration.
5, A portentous sign or event; an omen; a sign of something about to happen.
6. A "sign, portent, something extraordinary from which omens are drawn", from Latin prodigium, "sign, omen, portent, prodigy".

Premonitory; indicating the onset of a disease or a morbid state.