Proto
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Proto- is a prefix meaning "first," derived from ancient Greek. The prefix is productive in English; that is, it can be currently used with any English word to generate new nouns.
Proto in nouns already generated and in names may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Frank Proto, American composer and bassist
- Ludovic Proto, a French boxer
- Silvio Proto, a Belgian goalkeeper
- Proto (see Protus and Hyacinth), a Christian martyr during the persecution of Valerian I
[edit] Fictional and mythological characters
- Proto, one of the Nereids in Greek mythology
- Proto (Ghost in the Shell), a fictional character in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell anime and manga
- Protogenoi, primordial gods in Greek mythology
- Protodeviln, a fictional race of alien beings in the anime series Macross 7
[edit] Organizations
- Proto (tools), a tool company (formerly Plomb Tools), now a division of Stanley Black & Decker
- Proto Motors, a South Korean sports car manufacturer and refitter
- Proto Records, a British record company active in the 1980s; see Barry Evangeli
- Proto-Kaw, an American progressive rock band
- Proto:87, a model railroad special interest group
- Proto 2, a research initiative to develop a prosthetic arm controled by thought
- The Protomen, and American rock band
[edit] Media
- Proto magazine, a national science magazine
- Proto Thema, a Greek newspaper
- Radio Proto, a radio station on Cyprus
- Protopunk, a type of modern music
- To Proto Vima, debut album of Apostolia Zoi
[edit] Products
- Siebe Gorman Proto, a type of rebreather breathing set
- SEAT Proto, concept cars
- Proto SLG, a paintball marker manufactured by DYE precision
[edit] In anthropology
- Proto-Malay, an ethnic group in Malaysia
- Proto-Australoid, a hypothetical ancient race of physical anthropology
- Proto-human, a group of human varieties in physical anthropology
[edit] In archaeology
- Proto-civilisation, a phase of the development of civilization
- Proto-celadon, an ancient Chinese ceramic type
- Proto-canton, the formative stage of a canton
- Protogeometric art, a decorative style of the earliest geometric period of archaeology
[edit] In history
- List of protomartyrs, a list of the first Christian martyrs
- Proto-Ionians, the people who spoke Proto-Ionian
- Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea, a Korean historical period
- Protohistory, a period between prehistory and history
- Protostrator, a Byzantine court office
- Protovestiarios, a high Byzantine court position
[edit] In contemporary and current events
- Proto-globalization, a modern historical trend
- Proto-fascism, a group of ideologies
- Proto.in, an event platform for India
- Protofeminism, a movement that precedes and anticipates feminism
- Protoscience, a new science
[edit] In religion
- Saint Patrick Proto-Cathedral Parish, a Catholic parish in California serving the Vietnamese
- Protopriest, in the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church, the first Cardinal-Priest in the order of precedence
- Protosyncellus, the principal deputy of the Bishop of an eparchy in the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Protocanonical books, Old Testament books also included in the Hebrew Bible
[edit] In linguistics
- List of proto-languages, a list of hypothetical ancestral languages
- Proto-Canaanite alphabet, an ancient script
[edit] In physics and chemistry
- Protactinium, a chemical element
[edit] In astronomy
- Protostar, an ancestral star
- Protoplanet, an ancestral planet
- Protoplanetary disk, a disk of stellar gas surrounding a new star
[edit] In historical geology
- Proto-Tethys Ocean, the ancestral ocean
- Protoavis, the ancestral bird
- Protoceratopsid, a type of dinosaur
- Protoceratopsidae, an extinct family of artiodactyls
- Protolith, the precursor lithology of metamorphic rock
- Protorosaurus, a type of fossil lizard
- Protosuchus, a fossil crocodylomorph
- Protosuchia, extinct Mesozoic crocodyliforms
- Prototaxites, an extinct terrestrial organism
- Protognathosaurus, a genus of dinosaur
[edit] In biology
[edit] Biological taxa
- Muschampia proto, a species of butterfly
- Protist, a diverse group of eukaryotic organisms
- Protocetidae, a family of Cetaceans
- Protogamasellopsis, a genus of mite
- Protohermes grandis, a species of dobsonfly
- Protomelas, a genus of haplochromine cichlids
- Protomognathus americanus, a species of ant
- Protoneuridae, a family of damsel flies
- Protosteliales, a grouping of primitive slimes
- Prototheoridae, a family of insects in Africa
- Prototheria, a taxon to which the Monotremata belong
- Protoxerini, a tribe of African squirrels
- Protozoa, unicellular eukaryotic organisms
- Eulimella protofunis, a species of sea snail
- Chicomurex protoglobosus, a species of sea snail
- Prototyphis eos, a species of sea snail
- Chicomurex protoglobosus, a species of sea snail
[edit] Other biological
- Proto-mitochondrion, a hypothetical ancestral mitichondrion
- Proto-anticodon RNA, a type of molecule found in a cell
- Protoplasm, the contents of a cell
- Protoconch, an embryonic shell
- Protoplast, part of a cell
- Protocarnivorous plant, a type of plant that traps and kills insects for reasons that remain unknown
- Protozoology, the study of Protozoa
- Protonema, a thread-like chain of cells in the Bryophyte life cycle
[edit] See also
- Proto-language (disambiguation)
- Proto-religion
- Protocol
- Proton (disambiguation)
- Protos
- Prototype (disambiguation)
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