prosa

Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

prosa f (uncountable)

1. prose

• prosaic

• “prosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key):

prosa

1. inflection of proso:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔsa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

prosa f (uncountable)

1. prose

• prosaico

• “prosa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.za/
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: prò‧sa

prosa f (plural prose)

1. a prose
2. a drama (theatre)

• prosaicamente
• prosaicismo
• prosaicità
• prosaico
• prosastico
• prosatore

• aspro, parso, raspo, raspò, sapro-, saprò, sopra, sopra-, sparo, sparò, spora

Ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or prōsa ēloquentia ("straightforward speech", i.e. without the ornaments of verse). Feminine form of prōsus, prōrsus.

prōsa f (genitive prōsae); first declension

1. prose

First-declension noun.

• “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
    

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

prosa

Wikipedia ^no

From Latin prosa.

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

1. prose (written or spoken language without metrical structure)

• “prosa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

prosa

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Latin prosa.

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

1. prose (as above)

• “prosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Syllabification: pro‧sa

prosa n

1. inflection of proso:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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”).

• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

prosa f (plural prosas)

1. (literature, uncountable) prose (written language not intended as poetry)

   Antonym: poesia

2. a work in prose

   Synonym: narrativa

3. eloquence

   Synonyms: eloquência, oratória

4. chat (informal conversation)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:conversa

• “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Latin prōsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾosa/
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: pro‧sa

prosa f (plural prosas)

1. prose

• “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], 2024 December 10

• IPA^(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/

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prosa c

1. prose (as opposed to verse)

   Antonym: vers

• dikt
• lyrik
• poesi
• rim

• bruksprosa
• fiktionsprosa
• högprosa
• kortprosa
• lågprosa
• normalprosa
• prosaisk
• sakprosa

• prosa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• prosa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• prosa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• apors, ropas, sopar