proza

See also: próza and prozą

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French prose, the Latin word prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātio (“a straightforward speech- i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: pro‧za

Noun

proza n (uncountable)

1. prose

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.za/

Noun

proza f

1. prose

Declension

declension of proza

	singular
nominative	proza
genitive	prozy
dative	prozie
accusative	prozę
instrumental	prozą
locative	prozie
vocative	prozo

Antonyms

• poezja

Derived terms

• prozaik, prozaiczka
• prozaiczność
• prozaiczny
• prozaicznie

Further reading

• proza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Prosa, from Latin prosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǒːza/
• Hyphenation: pro‧za

Noun

próza f (Cyrillic spelling про́за)

1. (uncountable) prose

Declension

Declension of proza

	singular
nominative	proza
genitive	proze
dative	prozi
accusative	prozu
vocative	prozo
locative	prozi
instrumental	prozom

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Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian про́за (próza).

Noun

proza

1. prose

Inflection

Inflection of proza
nominative sing.	proza
genitive sing.	prozan
partitive sing.	prozad
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	proza	—
accusative	prozan	—
genitive	prozan	—
partitive	prozad	—
essive-instructive	prozan	—
translative	prozaks	—
inessive	prozas	—
elative	prozaspäi	—
illative	?	—
adessive	prozal	—
ablative	prozalpäi	—
allative	prozale	—
abessive	prozata	—
comitative	prozanke	—
prolative	prozadme	—
approximative I	prozanno	—
approximative II	prozannoks	—
egressive	prozannopäi	—
terminative I	?	—
terminative II	prozalesai	—
terminative III	prozassai	—
additive I	?	—
additive II	prozalepäi	—

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “проза”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika