It represents the current circumstances of a person or thing. Such as a soldier on ready status would be a soldier that is prepared to deploy right away.It also means the same thing as a position...
Pro is a prefix, not a root word. Some people, however, consider a prefix a root word as well. Pro means before, or beginning. Examples: Proceed Produce Progress Project Promote
Kenneth Burke (Grammar of Motives, 1945) argues that the root of "status" is the Indo-Germanic "sta" corresponding to the Sanskrit "stha-": "There is a set of words comprising what we might call the...