pravus
See also: prāvus
Esperanto
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *prāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-wo-s, from *preh₂- (“to bend”). Cognate with prātum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) 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
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 | |
Descendants
- Asturian: bravu (partially)
- Catalan: brau (partially)
- Galician: bravo (partially)
- Italian: pravo, bravo (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.
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