prosa
Catalan
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Further reading
- “prosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprosa]
Galician
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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”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.za/
- Rhymes: -ɔza
- Hyphenation: prò‧sa
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
Etymology
From phrases such as "prōsa ōrātiō", "prōsa ēloquentia" ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.
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
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.sa/
- Rhymes: -ɔsa
- Syllabification: pro‧sa
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old 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
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾɔ.zɐ/
- Hyphenation: pro‧sa
Noun
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
Related terms
- prosador
- prosaicamente
- prosaico
- prosaísmo
- prosaísta
- prosar
- proseado
- proseador
- prosear
- proseio
Further reading
- “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
- Rhymes: -osa
- Syllabification: pro‧sa
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/
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