pravus
See also: prāvus
Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]pravus
- conditional of pravi
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *prāwos (whence also Faliscan 𐌐𐌓𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔 (prauios, praenomen)). Further etymology unknown.[1][2] Pokorny's derivation from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-wo-s, from *preh₂- (“to bend”), whence also prātum, is nowadays rejected.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpraː.u̯us/, [ˈpräːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpra.vus/, [ˈpräːvus]
Adjective
[edit]prāvus (feminine prāva, neuter prāvum, comparative prāvior, superlative prāvissimus, adverb prāvē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | prāvus | prāva | prāvum | prāvī | prāvae | prāva | |
| genitive | prāvī | prāvae | prāvī | prāvōrum | prāvārum | prāvōrum | |
| dative | prāvō | prāvae | prāvō | prāvīs | |||
| accusative | prāvum | prāvam | prāvum | prāvōs | prāvās | prāva | |
| ablative | prāvō | prāvā | prāvō | prāvīs | |||
| vocative | prāve | prāva | prāvum | prāvī | prāvae | prāva | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: bravu (partially)
- Catalan: brau (partially)
- Galician: bravo (partially)
- Italian: pravo, bravo (partially)
- Mirandese: brabo (partially)
- Norman: brave (partially)
- Occitan: brau (partially)
- Portuguese: pravo, bravo (partially)
- Sardinian: bravu (partially)
- Spanish: pravo, bravo (partially)
- Venetan: bravo (partially)
- Romanian: bravo (partially)
References
[edit]- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 118
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prāvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487
Further reading
[edit]- 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.