2122: prosaic Oct 6, 2020

The word 'prosaic' is now an adjective meaning 'in the style of prose', but it used to be a noun. This is may sound odd because the '-ic' suffix is often associated with the creation of adjective, though of course this is not true all of the time as with 'lyric' for instance. The meaning changed into its form as an adjective in the 18th century, and now the meaning it once had is held by 'proser'.

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