pravo

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin prāvus (depraved” ← “deformed).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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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
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 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[3], 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]‎[4], 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]‎[5], 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]‎[6], 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

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Noun

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pravo m (plural pravi)

  1. a wicked or evil person (male)
    Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio
    Antonym: buono
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[7], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[8], 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

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Latin

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Adjective

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prāvō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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prȁvo (Cyrillic spelling пра̏во)

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

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Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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právo n (Cyrillic spelling пра́во)

  1. right
    ljudska pravahuman rights
  2. law
  3. jurisprudence
Declension
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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pravo

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of prav

Adjective

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pravo

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of pravi

Slovene

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Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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prȃvo n

  1. law

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
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

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

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin prāvus (depraved” ← “deformed).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾabo/ [ˈpɾa.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -abo
  • Syllabification: pra‧vo

Adjective

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

  1. wicked, immoral, depraved
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