pregiudicare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin praeiūdicāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pregiudicàre (first-person singular present pregiùdico, first-person singular past historic pregiudicài, past participle pregiudicàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, rare) to prejudge, to forejudge
- (transitive, law) to invalidate, to compromise
- (transitive, by extension) to jeopardize
- (transitive, by extension) to endanger
- Synonym: compromettere
- (intransitive, literary) to damage [with a] [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: danneggiare
- 1530, Francesco Guicciardini, edited by Barbera, Bianchi & C., Ricordi politici e civili [Political and Civilian Memories][1], Florence, published 1857, section 401, page 223, collected in Opere inedite di Francesco Guicciardini:
- Assai è buono cittadino chi è zelante del bene della patria, e alieno da tutte le cose che pregiudicano al terzo.
- A very good citizen is the one who is keen on the motherland's good, and removed from all the things that damage others.
- 1749, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, “Capitolo V: Del nobile Scopo , che dovrebbero prefiggersi Principi , Ministri , e Letterati , per proccurare il Pubblico Bene [Chapter 5: About the noble end that princes, ministers and scholars should pursue to bring about the public good]”, in Giuseppe Ponzelli, editor, Della pubblica felicità [About Public Happiness][2], Naples, published 1757, page 22, collected in Raccolta delle opere minori di Lodovico Antonio Muratori:
- Vizio è, qualora il Bene Privato si oppone, o pregiudica al Pubblico Bene.
- Error occurs when the private good opposes or damages the public good.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of pregiudicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- pregiudicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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