prosa
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin prōsa.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈpɾɔ.zə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpɾɔ.za/
Noun
prosa f (uncountable)
- prose
Related terms
- prosaic
Further reading
- “prosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprosa]
Noun
prosa
- inflection of proso:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Galician
Noun
prosa f (uncountable)
- prose
Related terms
- prosaico
Further reading
- “prosa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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)
- a prose
- a drama (theatre)
Related terms
- prosaicamente
- prosaicismo
- prosaicità
- prosaico
- prosastico
- prosatore
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- aspro, parso, raspo, raspò, sapro-, saprò, sopra, sopra-, sparo, sparò, spora
Latin
Etymology
From phrases such as "prōsa ōrātiō", "prōsa ēloquentia" ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.
Noun
prōsa f (genitive prōsae); first declension
- 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
- prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin prosa.
Noun
prosa m (definite singular prosaen)
- prose (written or spoken language without metrical structure)
References
- “prosa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin prosa.
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 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
Etymology
From Latin prōsa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
- Rhymes: -osa
- Syllabification: pro‧sa
Noun
prosa f (plural prosas)
- prose
Derived terms
- poema en prosa
Related terms
- prosaico
Further reading
- “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/
audio (file)
Noun
prosa c
- prose
Declension
| Declension of prosa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | prosa | prosan | — | — |
| Genitive | prosas | prosans | — | — |
Antonyms
- dikt
- lyrik
- poesi
- rim
Derived terms
- bruksprosa
- fiktionsprosa
- högprosa
- kortprosa
- lågprosa
- normalprosa
- prosaisk
- sakprosa
Anagrams
- apors, ropas, sopar