Where does “prosily” come from?
prosily (English) comes from English prosy, from English prose, from French prose, from Latin prōsa, from Latin prorsus, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr — to fit, to fix, to put together.
prosily (English): In a prosy manner
Definitions
- In a prosy manner
Ancestry of “prosily”, step by step
prosily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English prosy
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | prosy | Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative; Behaving in a... |
| 2 | English | prose | Language, particularly written language, not... |
| 3 | French | prose | prose; inflection of proser: ##... |
| 4 | Latin | prōsa | prose |
| 5 | Latin | prorsus | straightforward, right onwards, straight, direct;... |
| 6 | Latin | prō | for |
| 7 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 8 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |