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Esperanto
Verb
pravus
- conditional of pravi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *prāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-wo-s, from *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prātum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prāvus (feminine prāva, neuter prāvum, comparative prāvior, superlative prāvissimus, adverb prāvē); first/second-declension adjective
- crooked, deformed
- depraved, perverse, wicked
- vicious, wrong, bad, improper
- Synonym: iniūrius
- Antonym: rēctus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
- “pravus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pravus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pravus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.