Where does “prosasticità” come from?
prosasticità (Italian) comes from Italian prosastico, from Italian prosa, 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.
prosasticità (Italian): prosaicness
Ancestry of “prosasticità”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | prosastico | prosaic, prose |
| 2 | Italian | prosa | a prose; a drama |
| 3 | Latin | prōsa | — |
| 4 | Latin | prorsus | straightforward, right onwards, straight, direct;... |
| 5 | Latin | prō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 7 | Latin | rēōr | — |
| 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 |