prora

See also: proră

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōra, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”). Doublet of proda and prua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: prò‧ra

Noun

prora f (plural prore)

1. (literary) bow, bows, prow (of a ship)

   Synonym: prua

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXVI, pp. 390-391, vv. 139-141:

     a la quarta levar la poppa in suso ¶ e la prora ire in giù, com'altrui piacque, ¶ infin che 'l mar fu sovra noi richiuso».

     at the fourth time it made the stern uplift ¶ and the prow downward go, as pleased Another, ¶ until the sea above us closed again».

Related terms

• proravia

Descendants

• → Romanian: proră

Further reading

• prora in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• parrò, porrà

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.ra/, [ˈproːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ra/, [ˈprɔːrä]

Noun

prōra f (genitive prōrae); first declension

1. (nautical) prow
   • Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI

     Obvertunt pelago proras

     They turn their prows to the sea.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōra	prōrae
genitive	prōrae	prōrārum
dative	prōrae	prōrīs
accusative	prōram	prōrās
ablative	prōrā	prōrīs
vocative	prōra	prōrae

Descendants

• Istriot: prùa
• Italian: prora, proda
• Ligurian: prua, proa
  • → Middle French: proue
    • French: proue
    • → English: prow
  • → Turkish: pruva
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: proba, proa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: proa
  • Occitan: proa
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: proa
  • Portuguese: proa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: proa
• Sicilian: prua, pruva, pruda
  • >? Italian: prua
• Venetan: pròva
• → English: prore

References

• “prora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• prora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “prora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers