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Vinony

pronto

adverb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒntəʊ/ / [ˈpʰɹɒntʰəʊ̯] / /ˈpɹɑntoʊ/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.

  1. Quick, prompt.

    “For a pronto lunch, take a slice or two to work and team with a tasty salad.”

    “In pronto reaction time, Zeth chose to drive a black armored truck, […]”

adv

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.

  1. Quickly, very soon, promptly.

    “I need to finish this assignment pronto.”

    ““[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)”