prosa

Borrowed from Latin prōsa.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: pro‧sa

prosa f (uncountable)

1. prose

• prosaic

• “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

• 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

   Antonym: poesía

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

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

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

prosa (plural prosa-prosa)

1. (literature) prose

• “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

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)

• 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, 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”).

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• 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 Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “prosa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “prosa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin prōsa.

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

prosa f (plural prosas)

1. prose

   Antonym: poesía

• “prosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpruːˌsa/

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prosa c

1. prose (as opposed to verse)

   Antonyms: vers, dikt, lyrik, poesi, rim

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

• apors, ropas, sopar