† ˈpronepot Sc. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. pro-, pronepos, -ōtem great-grandson, f. prō, pro-1 2 + nepos grandson: see nepote.]
= pronephew.
| 1536 Bellenden Cosmogr. ii. in Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xx, This Brutus wes nepot, or ellis pronepot, to..Eneas. [1729 Macfarlane Genealog. Collect. (S.H.S.) II. 142 Sir Thomas Maule his Pronepos..was killed at Flowdoun.] |