`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The three of them even built a smaller, early-version of the Fenton Portal during this time, which they called the proto-portal. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Breton defines what we can label proto-Surrealism. From Wordnik.com. [24 « August « 2008 « Jahsonic] Reference
Such polygonal pillars as these are commonly called proto-Doric columns. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
Sequence in proto-RNA comes about as the result of random jostling of molecules. From Wordnik.com. [Attached to Strings] Reference
I knew Harold was audioblogging way back but was unaware at his experiments in proto-podcasting. From Wordnik.com. [Say Huh? | Evil Genius Chronicles] Reference
A reconstructed language is often called a proto-language and usually is the parent of one or more later languages. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Fear, a limbic chemical state driven from the very core of our most primitive beings, is something I call a proto-emotion. From Wordnik.com. [What Exactly Is An Enlightened Panic?] Reference
Contemporaneously, closer to the coastal regions of central Tanzania, a distinct development came about in proto-East Ruvu communities. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
In some sense the "proto"-MUD is a natural environment for geeks, and perhaps if can be found in many software related contexts. From Wordnik.com. [Potpourri] Reference
They are called the proto-Northeast-Coastal Bantu. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
The 'brother', the Kaliba AI does seem to be what I am calling proto-skynet. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Synapsids, aka the proto-mammals, mammal-like reptiles, or stem-mammals. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Nabataean, Lihyanian, or Tamudic, Minean and so-called proto-Arabic inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
This is also why I called my proto-fascist death squad militia The Puppy Playtime!. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation] Reference
It has been called proto-modern architecture, and was widely imitated in elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
56Within proto-Ruvu and later Ruvu homesteads storage facilities for food supplies were built. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
KIT has been identified as a proto-oncogene, and has been previously implicated in glioblastoma. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
I suppose music like Joy Division, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure can be described as proto-goth. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sherlock Holmes is one of the prime examples of a fusion of modes we could label proto-Modern, I think. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debate] Reference
Collective has a distributist, organicist connotation as well, which some might characterize as proto-fascist. From Wordnik.com. [The American Scene] Reference
Additionally, to truly classify as a proto-star, the object was required to show up at more than one wavelength. From Wordnik.com. [New Studies on the Vela Star Forming Region | Universe Today] Reference
Stone remained in use even after iron was introduced, and so-called proto-Bantu ceramics appear even before iron. From Wordnik.com. [Africa's Storied Past] Reference
This book is indeed Keynesian in the deepest sense, what might be called proto-Keynesian rather than neo-Keynesian. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
If the new architectural building blocks called proto cells could prove indigestible, then they might grow unimpeded. From Wordnik.com. [MonkeyFilter] Reference
Larry often is described as proto-pop, or the bridge to pop, but pop art came up behind him; it clearly wasn't his obsession. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware] Reference
The Slayer Espresso machine is not in production yet, but a fully functional prototype called proto-Slayer has already been built and. From Wordnik.com. [Born Rich] Reference
'proto'-parent of the whole race of controversies between Protestant and. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
This is hard to explain to the young, politics as a kind of proto-Super Bowl. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Aenesidemus interpreted Heraclitus as a kind of proto-skeptic (see Polito 2004). From Wordnik.com. [Doctor, My Eyes] Reference
“Girl You Need A Change Of Mind” is an example of what I would call proto-disco. From Wordnik.com. [17 « December « 2007 « Jahsonic] Reference
But a kind of proto-journalism is emerging, and becoming steadily more sophisticated. From Wordnik.com. [The Hope of the Web] Reference
Of course it is one of his Heavenly council who does the lying, a kind of proto-Satan. From Wordnik.com. [Inspired Prophets and Lying Spirits] Reference
===But a kind of proto-journalism is emerging, and becoming steadily more sophisticated. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » New Libby Filing — A PR Perspective] Reference
But just as we can see a kind of proto-phenomenology in Kant, I think we can in Scotus as well. From Wordnik.com. [Scotus, Heidegger, and Derrida] Reference
These characteristics fit the detective Dobrowsky, which is why I saw him as a kind of proto-Arbeiter. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Ernst Jünger] Reference
Her poems indicate a passionate temperament, deeply committed to a kind of proto-Zionism and even messianism. From Wordnik.com. [Adah Isaacs Menken.] Reference
There is this kind of proto-natural jockeying now to be the alpha dog, if you will, in who is going to take the lead on this case. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2002] Reference
Bartolomeo Pagano, he was spun off into his own series of films, playing a kind of proto. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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