prosa

See also: Prosa

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōsa.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

1. prose

Related terms

• prosaic

Further reading

• “prosa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprosa]

Noun

prosa

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

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔsa/ [ˈpɾɔ.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

Noun

prosa f (uncountable)

1. prose

   Antonym: poesía

Related terms

• prosaico

Further reading

• “prosa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātio (“a straightforward speech- i.e. without the ornaments of verse”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈprosa/ [ˈpro.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: pro‧sa

Noun

prosa (plural prosa-prosa)

1. (literature) prose

Derived terms

• memprosakan

• prosa berirama
• prosa didaktis
• prosa eksposisi
• prosa fiksi
• prosa lirik
• prosa liris
• prosa naratif
• prosa nonfiksi
• prosa puitis

Related terms

• prosais

Further reading

• “prosa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

Noun

prosa f (plural prose)

1. a prose
2. a drama (theatre)

Related terms

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

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Latin versus

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ōrātiōellip.

▲

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ēloquentiaellip.

Latin prōsa

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

1. prose

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōsa	prōsae
genitive	prōsae	prōsārum
dative	prōsae	prōsīs
accusative	prōsam	prōsās
ablative	prōsā	prōsīs
vocative	prōsa	prōsae

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, 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
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin prosa.

Noun

prosa m (definite singular prosaen)

1. 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)

1. prose (as above)

References

• “prosa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prosa n

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

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔ.zɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɔ.zɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔzɐ
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

Noun

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

Related terms

• prosador
• prosaicamente
• prosaico
• prosaísmo
• prosaísta
• prosar
• proseado
• proseador
• prosear
• proseio

Further reading

• “prosa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “prosa”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “prosa”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “prosa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “prosa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Latin versus

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ōrātiōellip.

▲

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ēloquentiaellip.

Latin prōsader.

Spanish prosa

Derived from Latin prōsa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prosa f (plural prosas)

1. prose

   Antonym: poesía

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), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

prosa c

1. prose (as opposed to verse)

   Antonyms: vers, dikt, lyrik, poesi, rim

Declension

Declension of prosa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	prosa	prosas
	definite	prosan	prosans
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

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

References

• “prosa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “prosa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “prosa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• apors, ropas, sopar

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Latin versus

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ōrātiōellip.

▲

Latin prōsa

Latin prōsa ēloquentiaellip.

Latin prōsader.

Spanish prosabor.

Tagalog prosa

Borrowed from Spanish prosa (“prose”), from Latin prōsa, ellipsis of prōsa ōrātiō or prōsa ēloquentia.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾosa/ [ˈpɾoː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: pro‧sa

Noun

prosa (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜓᜐ)

1. prose

   Synonym: tuluyan

Further reading

• “prosa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018