pranso
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin prānsus, perfect passive participle of prandeō (“to eat”).
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Adjective edit
pranso (feminine pransa, masculine plural pransi, feminine plural pranse)
- (literary, archaic) fed, sated
- Synonym: sazio
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 76–78; 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:
- Quali si stanno ruminando manse
le capre, state rapide e proterve
sovra le cime avante che sien pranse […]- Like the meek ruminating goats, having been swift and haughty upon the mountaintops before being sated […]
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Further reading edit
- pranso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Participle edit
prānsō