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