pravus

See also: prāvus

Esperanto

Verb

pravus

1. conditional of pravi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *prāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-wo-s, from *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prātum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpraː.u̯us/, [ˈpräːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpra.vus/, [ˈpräːvus]

Adjective

prāvus (feminine prāva, neuter prāvum, comparative prāvior, superlative prāvissimus, adverb prāvē); first/second-declension adjective

1. crooked, deformed
2. depraved, perverse, wicked
3. vicious, wrong, bad, improper

   Synonym: iniūrius

   Antonym: rēctus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	prāvus	prāva	prāvum		prāvī	prāvae	prāva
Genitive	prāvī	prāvae	prāvī		prāvōrum	prāvārum	prāvōrum
Dative	prāvō		prāvō		prāvīs
Accusative	prāvum	prāvam	prāvum		prāvōs	prāvās	prāva
Ablative	prāvō	prāvā	prāvō		prāvīs
Vocative	prāve	prāva	prāvum		prāvī	prāvae	prāva

Derived terms

• dēprāvō
• prāvē
• prāvitās

Descendants

• Asturian: bravu (partially)
• Catalan: brau (partially)
• Galician: bravo (partially)
• Italian: pravo, bravo (partially)
  • French: brave
    • English: brave
• Mirandese: brabo (partially)
• Norman: brave (partially)
• Occitan: brau (partially)
• Portuguese: pravo, bravo (partially)
• Sardinian: bravu (partially)
• Spanish: pravo, bravo (partially)
• Venetian: bravo (partially)
• Romanian: bravo (partially)

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 843
• “pravus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pravus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pravus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.