# prosa
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾɔ.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɾɔ.za]
* Rhymes: -ɔza
* Hyphenation: pro‧sa

### 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: [ˈprosa]

### Noun

prosa
* inflection of proso:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾɔsa/ [ˈpɾɔ.s̺ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔsa
* Hyphenation: pro‧sa

### Noun

prosa f (uncountable)
* prose

#### Related terms

* prosaico

### Further reading

* “prosa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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 (2001–2025) “prosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

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

## Latin
### Etymology

Ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or 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.

#### 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

## 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: /ˈprɔ.sa/
* Rhymes: -ɔsa
* Syllabification: pro‧sa

### Noun

prosa n
* inflection of proso:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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: /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾo.sa]
* Rhymes: -osa
* Syllabification: pro‧sa

### Noun

prosa f (plural prosas)
* prose

#### Derived terms

* poema en prosa
* prosaísmo

#### Related terms

* prosaico

### Further reading

* “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

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpruːˌsa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

prosa c
* prose (as opposed to verse)
    Antonym: vers

#### Antonyms

* dikt
* lyrik
* poesi
* rim

#### Derived terms

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

### References

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

### Anagrams

* apors, ropas, sopar