Where does “prosy” come from?
Prosy derives from English prose, from French prose, from Latin prosa (discourse turned forward), from Latin versus (turned), from Latin vertere (to turn), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
prosy (English): Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative; Behaving in a...
Definitions
- Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative; Behaving in a...
Ancestry of “prosy”, step by step
| 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 |