pravo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.vo/
• Rhymes: -avo
• Hyphenation: prà‧vo

Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravi, feminine plural prave) (archaic, literary)

1. depraved, evil, wicked

   Synonyms: cattivo, dannato, maligno, malo, malvagio, nequitoso

   Antonyms: benigno, buono, onesto, probo, retto

   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed ecco verso noi venir per nave
     un vecchio, bianco per antico pelo,
     gridando: «Guai a voi, anime prave!

     And there was coming towards us in a boat, an old man, white with aged hair, yelling: "Woe unto you, o depraved souls!"

   • c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida‎, page 194:

     Non ti fu grave tanto faticarti,
     Che del bel cielo in questa vita prava
     Non discendessi […]

     Enduring hardship was not so heavy to you to stop you from descending from the beautiful heaven to this wicked life

   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎, published 1991, ⅬⅩⅨ Di certe leggi che fece in Roma Lodovico di Baviera sì come imperadore.:

     Queste leggi furono pensatamente fatte e ordinate per lo detto Bavero […] a fine che sotto queste volle partorire lo suo iniquo e pravo intendimento contra papa Giovanni

     These laws where thoughtfully created and ordered by the aforementioned Bavarian because, under them, he hatched his unjust and wicked scheme against Pope John

   • c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, “IX. O peccator, io sono Iddio eterno [9. O sinner, I am God eternal]”, in Rime, collected in Opere, published 1913, page 147:

     Con amorosa voce e con soave
     ti chiamo, per mutar tue voglie prave.

     With loving and gentle voice I call you, to change your wicked desires.

   • 1831, Giacomo Leopardi, “Canto Ⅰ”, in Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia [Paralipomena of the Batrachomyomachia]‎, Paris, published 1842, page 13:

     Molte genti provàr dure vicende,
     e prave diventàr per lungo affanno;

     Many people went through hard tribulations and became wicked because of the long affliction

2. (by extension) cruel, merciless, ruthless

   Synonyms: crudele, spietato

   Antonyms: compassionevole, misericordioso, pietoso

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo d'Amore [Triumph of Love]”, in I trionfi [The Triumphs]‎, Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1997, lines 40–42:

     Poi vedi come Amor crudele e pravo ¶ vince Davit e sforzalo a far l’opra ¶ onde poi pianga in loco oscuro e cavo.

     See then how love, vicious and cruel overcame David, leading him to a sin he was to weep for in a dark retreat.

Derived terms

• pravamente

Related terms

• pravità

Noun

pravo m (plural pravi)

1. a wicked or evil person (male)

   Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio

   Antonym: buono

   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     io userei parole ancor più gravi;
     ché la vostra avarizia il mondo attrista,
     calcando i buoni e sollevando i pravi.

     I would use even harsher words, because your avarice afflicts the world, trampling the good and lifting the depraved.

Anagrams

• prova

Latin

Adjective

prāvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâʋo/
• Hyphenation: pra‧vo

Adverb

prȁvo (Cyrillic spelling пра̏во)

1. straight
2. correctly, rightly
3. justly
4. strictly

See also

• lijevo
• desno

Etymology 2

From prȁv +‎ -o. Calque of German Recht and French droit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǎːʋo/
• Hyphenation: pra‧vo

Noun

právo n (Cyrillic spelling пра́во)

1. right

   ljudska prava ― human rights

2. law
3. jurisprudence

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pravo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of prav

Adjective

pravo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of pravi

Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

pravo

Wikipedia ^sl

Etymology

From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /práːʋɔ/

Noun

prȃvo n

1. law

Inflection

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Further reading

• “pravo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾabo/
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: pra‧vo

Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravos, feminine plural pravas, superlative pravísimo)

1. wicked, immoral, depraved

Related terms

Further reading

• “pravo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014