Where does “prosimetrical” come from?
prosimetrical (English) comes from English prose, 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.
prosimetrical (English): Consisting both of prose and verse
Definitions
- Consisting both of prose and verse
Ancestry of “prosimetrical”, step by step
prosimetrical traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English prose
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | prose | Language, particularly written language, not... |
| 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 |
via English metrical
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | metrical | relating to poetic meter; having a regular... |
| 2 | New Latin | metricus | pertaining to the system based on the meter;... |
| 3 | Latin | metrum | a measure |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |