prosaic

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wer-“to turn, to bend”
2. Old Latin · derived fromprovorsus“straight ahead”
3. Latin · derived fromprosa“prose”
4. Medieval Latin · derived fromprosaicus“in prose”
5. Middle French · derived fromprosaïque
6. English todayprosaic

From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).

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