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prou

/pʁu/

adverb/pʁu/

a lot; enough

Inherited from Old French pro (“profit”), from Late Latin prōde (“profitable, useful”), from Latin prōdest (“is useful”), third-person singular of prōsum (“be useful”), after being reanalyzed as prōde est. Compare Catalan prou, where the form is widely used.