prora

See also: proră

Italian

Borrowed from Latin prōra, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prôira), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to go forth, to cross”). Doublet of proda and prua.

prora f (plural prore)

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

Istriot: prùa
Italian: prora, proda
Ligurian: prua, proa
- → Middle French: proue
  - French: proue
  - → English: prow
- → Turkish: pruva
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: proba, proa
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: proa
- Occitan: proa
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: proa
- Portuguese: proa
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: proa
Sicilian: prua, pruva, pruda
- >? Italian: prua
Venetan: 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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