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From Latinprōsa(“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 Latinprōvorsus(“moving straight ahead”), from pro-(“forward”) + vorsus(“turned”), form of vertō(“to turn”). Compare verse.[1]
“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.