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語源 1

From 中期英語 fro, fra, from 古期英語 fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.

副詞

fro (not comparable)

1. (archaic on its own) From; away; back or backward.

使用する際の注意点

In modern English, used only in the set phrase to and fro (“back and forth”).

派生語

• froward
• to and fro

前置詞

fro

1. (obsolete) From.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16:

     The preest that hawkys so,
     All grace is far hym fro.

語源 2

Clipping of afro.

別の表記

• 'fro

名詞

fro (plural fros)

1. (slang) Clipping of afro (hairstyle).

派生語

参照

参考

• fro-yo (etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

• FOR, ORF, for, for-, orf

前置詞

fro

1. from
   • 14 Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     That if I might skapen fro prisoun

     That if I can escape from prison