Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pro tanto

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: pro -tan-to
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

To that extent.

Example Sentences

"Their vain fears only substitute other and worse evils for those which they are idly apprehensive of: while every restraint on the freedom of conduct of any of their human fellow creatures, (otherwise than by making them responsible for any evil actually caused by it), dries up pro tanto the principal fountain of human happiness, and leaves the species less rich, to an inappreciable degree, in all that makes life valuable to the individual human being."
"If 'making explicit' conveys this, then pro tanto it is a bad term."

Etymology

From Latin prō tantō (“so great/much”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: prō tantō

Questions

What does pro tanto mean?: To that extent.
Where does pro tanto come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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