pravo – Italian adjective declension

Italian adjective forms of pravo

Adjective: pravo

Hyphenation: prà‧vo
Singular m.pravo
Singular f.prava
Plural m.pravi
Plural f.prave

Sample Sentences

  • 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!") [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • 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) [c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, page 194:]
  • 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) [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.:]
  • 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.) [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:]
  • 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) [1831, Giacomo Leopardi, “Canto Ⅰ”, in Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia [Paralipomena of the Batrachomyomachia], Paris, published 1842, page 13:]
  • 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.) [1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo d'Amore [Triumph of Love]”, in I trionfi [The Triumphs], Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1997, lines 40–42:]

Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”). See: Latin Adjectives 'prāvus'.

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