onorato
See also: Onorato
Italian
Alternative forms
- onrato, orrato (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin honōrātus, perfect passive participle of honōrō (“to honor, respect”). Cognate with Piedmontese onorà.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.noˈra.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: o‧no‧rà‧to
Adjective
onorato (feminine onorata, masculine plural onorati, feminine plural onorate, superlative onoratissimo)
- honoured/honored
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, lines 136–141, page 295:
- La casa di che nacque il vostro fleto, ¶ per lo giusto disdegno che v’ha morti ¶ e puose fine al vostro viver lieto, ¶ era onorata, essa e i suoi consorti: ¶ o Buondelmonte, quanto mal fuggisti ¶ le nozze süe per li altrui conforti!
- The house from which is born your lamentation, through just disdain that death among you brought and put an end unto your joyous life, was honoured/honored in itself and its companions. O Buondelmonte, how in evil hour thou fled'st the bridal at another's promptings!
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- honorable
Derived terms
- onoratamente
Related terms
- onoranza
- onorare
- onore
- onorevole
Participle
onorato (feminine onorata, masculine plural onorati, feminine plural onorate)
- past participle of onorare
Further reading
- onorato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana