pravo

See also: právo, and prāvo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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^[1], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎^[2], 2^nd 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”, in Nuova Cronica‎^[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”, 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^[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”, in I trionfi‎^[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

• pravamente

Related terms

• pravità

Noun

pravo m (plural pravi)

1. a wicked or evil person (male)

   Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio

   Antonym: buono

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno‎^[7], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎^[8], 2^nd 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

• prova

Latin

Adjective

prāvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

prȁvo (Cyrillic spelling пра̏во)

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

See also

• lijevo
• desno

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

právo n (Cyrillic spelling пра́во)

1. right

   ljudska prava ― human rights

2. law
3. jurisprudence

Declension

Declension of pravo

	singular	plural
nominative	pravo	prava
genitive	prava	prava
dative	pravu	pravima
accusative	pravo	prava
vocative	pravo	prava
locative	pravu	pravima
instrumental	pravom	pravima

Derived terms

• prȃvnī
• prȃvnīk
• prȁvosūdnī
• prȁvosūđe

 

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pravo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of prav

Adjective

pravo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of pravi

Slovene

Etymology

From prȁv +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /práːʋɔ/

Noun

prȃvo n

1. law

Inflection

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

• “pravo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. wicked, immoral, depraved

Related terms

• pravedad

 

Further reading

• “pravo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28