From Latin prasius, from Ancient Greek πράσιος (prásios, “of a green colour”), from Ancient Greek πράσον (práson, “leek”).
prase (countable and uncountable, plural prases)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Inherited from Old Czech prasě, from Proto-Slavic *porsę, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.
prase n (related adjective prasečí)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *porsę, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.
prȃse n (Cyrillic spelling пра̑се)
From Proto-Slavic *porsę, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.
prasȅ or práse n
| Declension of prase (neuter, t-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | prase | ||
| gen. sing. | praseta | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | prase | praseti | praseta |
| accusative | prase | praseti | praseta |
| genitive | praseta | praset | praset |
| dative | prasetu | prasetoma | prasetom |
| locative | prasetu | prasetih | prasetih |
| instrumental | prasetom | prasetoma | praseti |