prosa

See also: Prosa

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

Pronunciation

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈprosa]

Noun

prosa

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

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

  1. prose

Further reading

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

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

Ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or 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
  • Piedmontese: pròsa
  • Portuguese: prosa
  • Romanian: proză
  • Sicilian: prusa
  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Etymology

    From Latin prosa.

    Noun

    prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

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

    References

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Etymology

    From Latin prosa.

    Noun

    prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

    1. prose (as above)

    References

    Polish

    Pronunciation

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

    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 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)

    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

    Further reading

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

    Spanish

    Etymology

    From Latin prōsa.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

    prosa f (plural prosas)

    1. prose

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Swedish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/
    • (file)

    Noun

    prosa c

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

    Declension

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

    Antonyms

    Derived terms

    • bruksprosa
    • fiktionsprosa
    • högprosa
    • kortprosa
    • lågprosa
    • normalprosa
    • prosaisk
    • sakprosa

    References

    Anagrams

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