prosateur

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

prosateur

Ménage cited by Littré explains: "I have made prosateur, imitating the Italian prosatore, to say "a man who writes in prose". The word takes time to impose itself in French: the purists refuse to give it its modern meaning because in Latin, the meaning of prosator is quite exactly that of poet in ancient Greek: "creator". Richelet, in 1680, protests: we do not say "Mr. d'Ablancourt was an excellent prosateur", but "he was a man who wrote well in prose".

Definition

Antonyms

Feminine

prosatrice

Plural

prosateurs

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See also

prosier (cn.) proser (v.) prose (cn.)