prose

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prose/prəʊz/

▶noun

• 1 ordinary written or spoken language, without metrical structure.

• 2 another term for sequence (in sense 4).

▶verb

• 1 talk tediously.

• 2 dated compose in or convert into prose.

– derivatives
proser noun.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. prosa (oratio) ‘straightforward (discourse)’, fem. of prosus, earlier prorsus ‘direct’.