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French
Pronunciation
Noun
prout m (plural prouts)
- (informal) fart, trump, toot (an emission of flatulent gases)
- Synonym: pet
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From prō + ut.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
prout
- according as, in proportion
- just as, exactly as
References
- “prout”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prout”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "prout", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- prout in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.