prosa
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾɔ.zə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɾɔ.za]
- Rhymes: -ɔza
- Hyphenation: pro‧sa
Noun
prosa f (uncountable)
Related terms
Further reading
- “prosa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprosa]
Noun
prosa
- inflection of proso:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾɔsa/ [ˈpɾɔ.s̺ɐ]
- Rhymes: -ɔsa
- Hyphenation: pro‧sa
Noun
prosa f (uncountable)
Related terms
Further reading
- “prosa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
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)
Related terms
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “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
Declension
First-declension noun.
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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
prosa m (definite singular prosaen)
- prose (written or spoken language without metrical structure)
References
- “prosa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
prosa m (definite singular prosaen)
- prose (as above)
References
- “prosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.sa/
- Rhymes: -ɔsa
- Syllabification: pro‧sa
Noun
prosa n
- inflection of proso:
- genitive singular
- 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”) + vorsus (“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
Further reading
- “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
- Rhymes: -osa
- Syllabification: pro‧sa
Noun
prosa f (plural prosas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/
Audio: (file)
Noun
prosa c
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | prosa | prosas |
definite | prosan | prosans | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Antonyms
Derived terms
References
- prosa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- prosa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- prosa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)