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#518 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

utterly, entirely; certainly, indeed

Examples

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He understood absolutely nothing.

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The matter stands entirely otherwise.

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This is certainly true.

desperabant.

They utterly despaired of the war.

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Absolutely nobody replied.

Prorsus is a worn-down pro versus, "turned forwards", and the oldest sense is spatial: straight ahead, without turning. That survives in prorsa oratio, forward-going speech, which is where the word prose comes from: language that walks on instead of turning back at the end of a line as verse does.

In practice you will meet it as an intensifier, utterly or absolutely, and with a negative as "not at all". The thing not to do is read the original sense into it and translate it as "then" or "next". Prorsus strengthens a statement, it does not order events. Beside it sits rursus, the same formation built on re-, "turned back", meaning again.

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This word is part of lesson 11.