prora
See also: proră
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prōra, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”). Doublet of proda and prua.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.ra/
- Rhymes: -ɔra
- Hyphenation: prò‧ra
Noun
prora f (plural prore)
- (literary) bow, bows, prow (of a ship)
- Synonym: prua
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXVI, pp. 390-391, vv. 139-141:
- a la quarta levar la poppa in suso ¶ e la prora ire in giù, com'altrui piacque, ¶ infin che 'l mar fu sovra noi richiuso».
- at the fourth time it made the stern uplift ¶ and the prow downward go, as pleased Another, ¶ until the sea above us closed again».
Related terms
- proravia
Descendants
- → Romanian: proră
Further reading
- prora in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- parrò, porrà
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈproː.ra/, [ˈproːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.ra/, [ˈprɔːrä]
Noun
prōra f (genitive prōrae); first declension
- (nautical) prow
- Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI
- Obvertunt pelago proras
- They turn their prows to the sea.
- Obvertunt pelago proras
- Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | prōra | prōrae |
| Genitive | prōrae | prōrārum |
| Dative | prōrae | prōrīs |
| Accusative | prōram | prōrās |
| Ablative | prōrā | prōrīs |
| Vocative | prōra | prōrae |
Descendants
- Istriot: prùa
- Italian: prora, proda
- Ligurian: prua, proa
- → Middle French: proue
- French: proue
- → English: prow
- → Turkish: pruva
- → Middle French: proue
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: proba, proa
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: proa
- Occitan: proa
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: proa
- Portuguese: proa
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: proa
- Sicilian: prua, pruva, pruda
- Venetian: pròva
- → English: prore
References
- “prora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prora 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)
- prora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “prora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers