prosa
Catalan Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa f (uncountable)
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Further reading Edit
- “prosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa
- inflection of proso:
Galician Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa f (uncountable)
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Further reading Edit
- “prosa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian Edit
Etymology Edit
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 Edit
Noun Edit
prosa f (plural prose)
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References Edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams Edit
Latin Edit
Etymology Edit
Ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or prōsa ēloquentia ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.
Noun Edit
prōsa f (genitive prōsae); first declension
Declension Edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | prōsa | prōsae |
Genitive | prōsae | prōsārum |
Dative | prōsae | prōsīs |
Accusative | prōsam | prōsās |
Ablative | prōsā | prōsīs |
Vocative | prōsa | prōsae |
Descendants Edit
References Edit
- “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
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
prosa m (definite singular prosaen)
- prose (written or spoken language without metrical structure)
References Edit
- “prosa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
prosa m (definite singular prosaen)
- prose (as above)
References Edit
- “prosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa n
- inflection of proso:
Portuguese Edit
Etymology Edit
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”) + turned.
Pronunciation Edit
- Hyphenation: pro‧sa
Noun Edit
prosa f (plural prosas)
- (literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)
- Antonym: poesia
- a work in prose
- Synonym: narrativa
- eloquence
- Synonyms: eloquência, oratória
- chat (informal conversation)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa
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Further reading Edit
- “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa f (plural prosas)
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Further reading Edit
- “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
prosa c
Declension Edit
Declension of prosa | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | prosa | prosan | — | — |
Genitive | prosas | prosans | — | — |