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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prānsus, perfect passive participle of prandeō (“to eat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpran.so/
- Rhymes: -anso
- Hyphenation: pràn‧so
Adjective
pranso (feminine pransa, masculine plural pransi, feminine plural pranse)
- (literary, archaic) fed, sated
- Synonym: sazio
1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Quali si stanno ruminando manse
le capre, state rapide e proterve
sovra le cime avante che sien pranse […]- Like the meek ruminating goats, having been swift and haughty upon the mountaintops before being sated
Further reading
- pranso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Participle
prānsō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prānsus