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