Noun: prandio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pràn‧dio
| Singular m | prandio |
| Plural m | prandi |
Sample Sentences
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Leonida, ch'a' suoi lieto propose
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Un duro prandio, una terribil cena;
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E 'n poca piazza fè mirabil cose. (Leonidas, who gladly offered his men a hard lunch and a dreadful dinner, and did wonderful things with little room.) [1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo della fama - Capitolo II [Triumph of Fame, chapter 2]”, in I trionfi [Triumphs], collected in Le rime di M. Francesco Petrarca, Venice: Giuseppe Bortoli, published 1739, page 308, lines 22–24:]
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Sospeser le gioie dei prandi festosi,
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assursero in fretta dai blandi riposi,
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chiamati repente da squillo guerrier. (They interrupted the joys of the merry banquets, quickly rose from their bland rest, suddenly called forth by a warriorlike blast.) [1822, Alessandro Manzoni, “Atto III: Coro [Third Act: Chorus]”, in Adelchi, collected in Opere varie di Alessandro Manzoni, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 58:]
Nouns inflected like prandio
mioepitelio,
reziario,
sfizio,
proechimio,
scafio,
scimio,
scolio,
bestiario,
rogatario,
solaio,
soffio,
undicennio,
silfio,
iodoformio,
acrostolio,
capecchio,
cappellinaio,
fillocladio,
metalloscopio,
straordinario, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prandium (“luncheon”). Doublet of pranzo. See: Latin Nouns '
prandium'.
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