prosa

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose

Galician

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose

Italian

Etymology

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”) + turned, form of vertō (“I turn”). Compare verse.[1]

Noun

prosa f (plural prose)

  1. a prose
  2. a drama (theatre)

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From phrases such as "prōsa ōrātiō", "prōsa ēloquentia" ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.

Noun

prōsa f (genitive prōsae); first declension

  1. prose

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōsa prōsae
Genitive prōsae prōsārum
Dative prōsae prōsīs
Accusative prōsam prōsās
Ablative prōsā prōsīs
Vocative prōsa prōsae

Descendants

  • English: prose
  • French: prose
  • Italian: prosa
  • Portuguese: prosa
  • Spanish: prosa

References

  • “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

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Latin prosa

Noun

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

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

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Latin prosa

Noun

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

  1. prose (as above)

References

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

prosa n

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese prosa, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) in the term prōsa ōrātio (“straightforward speech”), alteration of prorsa, from feminine form of prorsus (“straight forwards”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + turned.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pro‧sa

Noun

prosa f (plural s)

  1. (literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)
  2. a work in prose
  3. eloquence
  4. chat (informal conversation)

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (written language not intended as poetry): poesia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]

Noun

prosa f (plural prosas)

  1. prose

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio:(file)

Noun

prosa c

  1. prose

Declension

Declension of prosa 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative prosa prosan — —
Genitive prosas prosans — —

Antonyms

Anagrams

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