Etymology

pro-life

Today it means: Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion. Full definition →

English life ← Middle English lyf ← Old English līf
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Italic*prō
  5. Latinprō
  6. Englishpro-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyp-
  8. Proto-Germanic*lībaną
  9. Proto-Germanic*lībą
  10. Proto-West Germanic*līb
  11. Old Englishlīf
  12. Middle Englishlyf
  13. Englishlife
  14. English todaypro-life

From pro- + life.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.