Neapolitan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈprɛːvətə]

Noun

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prevete m (plural prievete)

  1. priest

References

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  • 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

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Verb

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prevete

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