pronto
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See also: prónto
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒntəʊ/, [ˈpʰɹɒntʰəʊ̯]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑntoʊ/, [ˈpʰɹɑntʰoʊ̯], [ˈpʰɹɑnoʊ̯]
- Rhymes: -ɒntəʊ
Adverb
[edit]pronto (not comparable)
- (informal) Quickly, very soon, promptly.
- I need to finish this assignment pronto.
- 2024 September 12, Sam Damshenas, “‘A new direction for the franchise’: Drag Race UK stars on “mind-blowing” season 6”, in Gay Times[1]:
- “ […] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)
Translations
[edit]quickly
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[edit]pronto
Synonyms
[edit]- (nearby): cerca
Galician
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]pronto (feminine pronta, masculine plural prontos, feminine plural prontas)
- prompt, speedy
- ready, at the ready; willing
- Estades prontos? ― Are you ready?
- 1861, José Sánchez de Santamarina, transl., Gospel of Matthew, page 115:
- Que si ben o esprito está pronto, a carne sin embargo é fraca
- Because even if the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak
Adverb
[edit]pronto
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pronto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pronto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pronto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
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[edit]pronto (feminine pronta, masculine plural pronti, feminine plural pronte, superlative prontissimo)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pronto m (plural pronti)
Interjection
[edit]pronto
Further reading
[edit]- pronto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin prōmptus.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -õtu
- Hyphenation: pron‧to
Adjective
[edit]pronto (feminine pronta, masculine plural prontos, feminine plural prontas, comparable, comparative mais pronto, superlative o mais pronto or prontíssimo, diminutive prontinho, augmentative prontão)
- fast; instant; immediate (that does not delay)
- finished
- ready
- O jantar está pronto.
- Dinner is ready.
- free
- fit
- present
- (Brazil, slang) penniless
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:pronto.
Adverb
[edit]pronto
Noun
[edit]pronto m (plural prontos)
Further reading
[edit]- “pronto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “pronto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
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[edit]pronto (feminine pronta, masculine plural prontos, feminine plural prontas)
- prompt, on time
- ready
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 268:
- Las liebres duermen con los ojos abiertos, para hacer creer a sus enemigos que están despiertas y prontas para huir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pronto (superlative prontísimo)
- soon, promptly, any time soon
- Synonym: luego
- de pronto ― suddenly
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pronto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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