prora

See also: proră

Italian

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

prora f (plural prore)

(literary) bow, bows, prow (of a ship)
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (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».

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

prōra f (genitive prōrae); first declension

(nautical) prow
- Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI
  Obvertunt pelago proras
  They turn their prows to the sea.

First declension.

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

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, 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

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