Where does “prosateur” come from?
prosateur (English) comes from French prosateur, from French prose, from Latin prōsa, from Latin prorsus, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr — to fit, to fix, to put together.
prosateur (English): A writer of French prose
Definitions
- A writer of French prose
Ancestry of “prosateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | prosateur | prosaist |
| 2 | French | prose | prose; inflection of proser: ##... |
| 3 | Latin | prōsa | prose |
| 4 | Latin | prorsus | straightforward, right onwards, straight, direct;... |
| 5 | Latin | prō | for |
| 6 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 7 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |