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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)
- depraved, evil, wicked
- Synonyms: cattivo, dannato, maligno, malo, malvagio, nequitoso
- Antonyms: benigno, buono, onesto, probo, retto
1300s–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], 2nd 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
- (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
Noun
pravo m (plural pravi)
- a wicked or evil person (male)
- Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio
- Antonym: buono
1300s–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], 2nd 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
Latin
Adjective
prāvō
- 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)
- straight
- correctly, rightly
- justly
- strictly
See also
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)
- right
- ljudska prava ― human rights
- law
- jurisprudence
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
pravo
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of prav
Adjective
pravo
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of pravi
Slovene
Etymology
From prȁv + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
prȃvo n
- law
Inflection
Further reading
- “pravo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
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)
- wicked, immoral, depraved
Further reading