prorsus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproːr.sus/, [ˈproːrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpror.sus/, [ˈprɔrsus]

For *provorsus, from prō + versus, vorsus (“turned”).

• prōsus

prōrsus (feminine prōrsa, neuter prōrsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. straightforward, right onwards, straight, direct

   Synonym: rēctus

2. (transf. of style) straightforward, prosaic

First/second-declension adjective.

• prōsa

For *provorsus, from prō + versus, vorsus (“towards”).

• prōrsum
• prōsum, prōsus

prōrsus (not comparable)

1. forwards
2. straight forward; directly

   Synonym: dērēctō

3. certainly, truly, precisely, utterly, absolutely

   Synonym: omnīnō

• “prorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prorsus 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)
• prorsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere
    
  • that is exactly what I think: ita prorsus existimo