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Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɾɔ.za]
• 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): [ˈprosa]

prosa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔsa/ [ˈpɾɔ.s̺ɐ]
• 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
    

From Latin prosa.

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

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

• “prosa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: pro‧sa

prosa f (plural prosas)

1. prose

• “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/

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