Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *prebiter, from Latin presbyter (nominative form). Compare Italian prete.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈprɛːvətə]

Noun edit

prevete m (plural prievete)

  1. priest

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 796: “il prete” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “prevete”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Spanish edit

Verb edit

prevete

  1. inflection of prever:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te