Etymology

From LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#PRAVO prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.vo/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#PRAVOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAVO
• Rhymes: -avoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/avo#PRAVOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/avo/2 syllables#PRAVO
• Hyphenation: prà‧vo

Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravi, feminine plural prave)Category:Italian lemmas#PRAVOCategory:Italian adjectives#PRAVOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PRAVOCategory:Pages with entries#PRAVOCategory:Pages with 5 entries#PRAVO (archaicCategory:Italian archaic terms#PRAVO, literaryCategory:Italian literary terms#PRAVO)

1. depraved, evil, wicked

   Synonyms: cattivo, dannato, maligno, malo, malvagio, nequitoso

   Antonyms: benigno, buono, onesto, probo, retto

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed ecco verso noi venir per nave
     un vecchio, bianco per antico pelo,
     gridando: «Guai a voi, anime prave!

     And there was coming towards us in a boat, an old man, white with aged hair, yelling: "Woe unto you, o depraved souls!"

     Category:Italian terms with quotations#PRAVO

   • c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida‎, page 194:

     Non ti fu grave tanto faticarti,
     Che del bel cielo in questa vita prava
     Non discendessi […]

     Enduring hardship was not so heavy to you to stop you from descending from the beautiful heaven to this wicked life

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   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎, published 1991, ⅬⅩⅨ Di certe leggi che fece in Roma Lodovico di Baviera sì come imperadore.:

     Queste leggi furono pensatamente fatte e ordinate per lo detto Bavero […] a fine che sotto queste volle partorire lo suo iniquo e pravo intendimento contra papa Giovanni

     These laws where thoughtfully created and ordered by the aforementioned Bavarian because, under them, he hatched his unjust and wicked scheme against Pope John

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   • c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, “IX. O peccator, io sono Iddio eterno [9. O sinner, I am God eternal]”, in Rime, collected in Opere, published 1913, page 147:

     Con amorosa voce e con soave
     ti chiamo, per mutar tue voglie prave.

     With loving and gentle voice I call you, to change your wicked desires.

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   • 1831, Giacomo Leopardi, “Canto Ⅰ”, in Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia [Paralipomena of the Batrachomyomachia]‎, Paris, published 1842, page 13:

     Molte genti provàr dure vicende,
     e prave diventàr per lungo affanno;

     Many people went through hard tribulations and became wicked because of the long affliction

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2. (by extension) cruel, merciless, ruthless

   Synonyms: crudele, spietato

   Antonyms: compassionevole, misericordioso, pietoso

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo d'Amore [Triumph of Love]”, in I trionfi [The Triumphs]‎, Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1997, lines 40–42:

     Poi vedi come Amor crudele e pravo ¶ vince Davit e sforzalo a far l’opra ¶ onde poi pianga in loco oscuro e cavo.

     See then how love, vicious and cruel overcame David, leading him to a sin he was to weep for in a dark retreat.

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Noun

pravo m (plural pravi)Category:Italian lemmas#PRAVOCategory:Italian nouns#PRAVOCategory:Italian countable nouns#PRAVOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PRAVOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#PRAVOCategory:Pages with entries#PRAVOCategory:Pages with 5 entries#PRAVO

1. a wicked or evil person (male)

   Synonyms: cattivo, malvagio

   Antonym: buono

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     io userei parole ancor più gravi;
     ché la vostra avarizia il mondo attrista,
     calcando i buoni e sollevando i pravi.

     I would use even harsher words, because your avarice afflicts the world, trampling the good and lifting the depraved.

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Anagrams

• prova

Adjective

prāvōCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#PRAVOCategory:Latin adjective forms#PRAVOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PRAVOCategory:Pages with entries#PRAVOCategory:Pages with 5 entries#PRAVO

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus

Etymology 1

From prȁv +‎ -oCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms suffixed with -o#PRAVO.

Etymology 2

From prȁv +‎ -oCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms suffixed with -o#PRAVO. Calque of GermanCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms calqued from German#PRAVOCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from German#PRAVO Recht and FrenchCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms calqued from French#PRAVOCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from French#PRAVO droit.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology

From prȁv +‎ -oCategory:Slovene terms suffixed with -o#PRAVO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /práːʋɔ/Category:Slovene 2-syllable words#PRAVOCategory:Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAVO

Noun

prȃvo nCategory:Slovene lemmas#PRAVOCategory:Slovene nouns#PRAVOCategory:Slovene entries with incorrect language header#PRAVOCategory:Slovene neuter nouns#PRAVOCategory:Pages with entries#PRAVOCategory:Pages with 5 entries#PRAVO

1. law

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Category:Requests for tone in Slovene entries

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	právo
gen. sing.	práva
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	právo	právi	práva
genitive (rodȋlnik)	práva	práv	práv
dative (dajȃlnik)	právu	právoma	právom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	právo	právi	práva
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	právu	právih	právih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	právom	právoma	právi

Category:Slovene neuter hard o-stem nouns#PRAVO

Further reading

• “pravo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#PRAVO prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾabo/ [ˈpɾa.β̞o]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#PRAVOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#PRAVO
• Rhymes: -aboCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/abo#PRAVOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/abo/2 syllables#PRAVO
• Syllabification: pra‧vo

Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravos, feminine plural pravas, superlative pravísimo)Category:Spanish lemmas#PRAVOCategory:Spanish adjectives#PRAVOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PRAVOCategory:Pages with entries#PRAVOCategory:Pages with 5 entries#PRAVO

1. wicked, immoral, depraved

Further reading

• “pravo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025