pravo
See also: právo and prāvo
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
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto III”, in Inferno, lines 82–84:
- 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”, 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
- pravamente
Related terms
- pravità
Noun
pravo m (plural pravi)
- a wicked or evil person (male)
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno, lines 103–105:
- 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.
- Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio
- Antonym: buono
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Anagrams
- prova
Latin
Adjective
prāvō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From prȁv.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prâʋo/
- Hyphenation: pra‧vo
Adverb
prȁvo (Cyrillic spelling пра̏во)
- straight
- correctly, rightly
- justly
- strictly
See also
- lijevo
- desno
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pravo. A 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
Declension of pravo
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | pravo | prava |
genitive | prava | prava |
dative | pravu | pravima |
accusative | pravo | prava |
vocative | pravo | prava |
locative | pravu | pravima |
instrumental | pravom | pravima |
Derived terms
- prȃvnī
- prȃvnīk
- prȁvosūdnī
- prȁvosūđe
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
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pravo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /práːʋɔ/
Noun
prȃvo n
- law
Inflection
Neuter, hard | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | právo | ||
gen. sing. | práva | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) | právo | právi | práva |
genitive (rodȋlnik) | práva | práv | práv |
dative (dajȃlnik) | právu | právoma | právom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) | právo | právi | práva |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) | právu | právih | právih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | právom | právoma | právi |
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/ [ˈpɾa.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -abo
- Syllabification: pra‧vo
Adjective
pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravos, feminine plural pravas, superlative pravísimo)
- wicked, immoral, depraved
Related terms
- pravedad
Further reading
- “pravo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014