• (RP) IPA: [fɹəʊ]

From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra, from Old Norse frá, from Proto-Germanic *fram, from Proto-Indo-European *promo-.

fro (not comparable)

1. (archaic) From; away; back or backward.

1. (obsolete) From.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC ↗, page 62, lines 15–16:

     The preest that hawkys so,
     All grace is far hym fro.

fro (plural fros)

1. (slang) Clipping of afro (hairstyle).