Noun: prora
Gender: f
Hyphenation: prò‧ra
| Singular f | prora |
| Plural f | prore |
Sample Sentences
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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».) [1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXVI, pp. 390-391, vv. 139-141:]
Nouns inflected like prora
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prōra, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prōîra), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”). Doublet of proda and prua. See: Latin Nouns '
prōra', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πρῷρα'.
Verbs referencing "prora"
Romanian Nouns
proră.
Translations