different between poet vs prose

English

Alternative forms

• poët (rare or archaic)
• poete (rare or archaic)
• poëte (rare or archaic)

Etymology

From Old French poete, from Latin po?ta (“poet, author”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s, “creator, maker, author, poet”), from ????? (poié?, “I make, compose”). Displaced native Old English s?op.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po??t/, /?po??t/, [?p?o????(?)t?]
• Rhymes: -???t

Noun

poet (plural poets)

1. A person who writes poems.
2. A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Hyponyms

• poetess (female, dated)
• versifier

Derived terms

• poetaster
• poetess

Translations

Anagrams

• -tope, Pote, Tope, pote, tope

Danish

Noun

poet

1. poet

Declension

Synonyms

• digter

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /put/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

poet m (uncountable)

1. loot, stolen money

Anagrams

• pote, toep

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s), via Latin poeta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?e?t/
• IPA^(key): /pu?e?t/

Noun

poet m (definite singular poeten, indefinite plural poeter, definite plural poetene)

1. a poet

Synonyms

• dikter

Related terms

• poesi

References

• “poet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s), via Latin poeta

Noun

poet m (definite singular poeten, indefinite plural poetar, definite plural poetane)

1. a poet

Synonyms

• diktar

Related terms

• poesi

References

• “poet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Verb

poet

1. third-person singular present indicative of poeir

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French poète, itself from Latin poeta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?et/

Noun

poet m (plural poe?i)

1. poet

2. (figuratively) poet (person with a creative or romantic imagination)

Declension

Related terms

• poet? (“poetess”)
• poezie (“poetry”)

References

• poet in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

poet c

1. poet

Declension

Synonyms

• diktare
• lyriker
• rimsmed

Related terms

• poem
• poesi
• poetisk

English

Etymology

Used in English since 1330, from French prose, from Latin pr?sa (“straightforward”) from the term pr?sa ?r?ti? (“a straightforward speech- i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). The term pr?sa (“straightforward”) is a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”) which is the feminine form of prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin pr?vorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vert? (“I turn”). Compare verse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• Homophone: pros

Noun

prose (usually uncountable, plural proses)

1. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

   Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
2. Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
3. (Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

Antonyms

• poetry, verse

Derived terms

• prose poem
• prosewise
• purple prose

Related terms

• prosaic
• prosody

Translations

Verb

prose (third-person singular simple present proses, present participle prosing, simple past and past participle prosed)

1. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190

     Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak;

     What is your purpose?

References

• prose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• OPers., Peros, Perso-, S'pore, Soper, Spero, opers, pores, poser, preso, reops, repos, ropes, soper, spore

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pros?]
• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

prose

1. locative singular of proso

Verb

prose

1. masculine singular present transgressive of prosit

Related terms

• prosíc
• poprosiv
• prosící

French

Etymology

From Latin pr?sa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?oz/
• Homophone: proses

Noun

prose f (plural proses)

1. prose

Derived terms

• faire de la prose sans le savoir
• prosateur
• proser

Verb

prose

1. inflection of proser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “prose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• perso, pores, poser, repos

Italian

Noun

prose f

1. plural of prosa

Anagrams

• perso, porse, preso, spero, sperò, spore

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pors?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?s?/, [?pr?s?]

Noun

prose n (genitive prose?a, dual prose?i, plural proseta)

1. piglet

Declension

Further reading

• prose in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• prose in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.