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prosa

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

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Noun

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prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose
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Czech

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Noun

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prosa

  1. inflection of proso:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾɔsa/ [ˈpɾɔ.s̺ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Hyphenation: pro‧sa

Noun

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prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose
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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātio (“a straightforward speech- i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). The term prōsa (“straightforward”) is a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”) which is the feminine form of prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.za/
  • Rhymes: -ɔza
  • Hyphenation: prò‧sa

Noun

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prosa f (plural prose)

  1. a prose
  2. a drama (theatre)
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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or prōsa ēloquentia ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.

Noun

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prōsa f (genitive prōsae); first declension

  1. prose

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative prōsa prōsae
genitive prōsae prōsārum
dative prōsae prōsīs
accusative prōsam prōsās
ablative prōsā prōsīs
vocative prōsa prōsae

Descendants

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  • English: prose
  • French: prose
  • Italian: prosa
  • Piedmontese: pròsa
  • Portuguese: prosa
  • → Romanian: proză
  • Sicilian: prusa
  • Spanish: prosa

References

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  • “prosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "prosa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • prosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio


Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin prosa.

Noun

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prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

  1. prose (written or spoken language without metrical structure)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin prosa.

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prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

  1. prose (as above)

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Syllabification: pro‧sa

Noun

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prosa n

  1. inflection of proso:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese prosa, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) in the term prōsa ōrātio (“straightforward speech”), alteration of prōrsa, from the feminine form of prōrsus (“straight, forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from prō- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”).

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  • Hyphenation: pro‧sa

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prosa f (plural prosas)

  1. (literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)
    Antonym: poesia
  2. a work in prose
    Synonym: narrativa
  3. eloquence
    Synonyms: eloquência, oratória
  4. chat (informal conversation)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa
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Further reading

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  • “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin prōsa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: pro‧sa

Noun

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prosa f (plural prosas)

  1. prose

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Swedish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/
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Noun

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prosa c

  1. prose (as opposed to verse)
    Antonym: vers

Declension

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Declension of prosa
nominative genitive
singular indefinite prosa prosas
definite prosan prosans
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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