# pravo
## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpra.vo/
* Rhymes: -avo
* Hyphenation: prà‧vo

### Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravi, feminine plural prave) (archaic, literary)
* 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]‎, 2nd 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!"
** 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
** 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 GiovanniThese laws where thoughtfully created and ordered by the aforementioned Bavarian because, under them, he hatched his unjust and wicked scheme against Pope John
** 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.
** 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
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* pravamente

#### Related terms

* pravità

### Noun

pravo m (plural pravi)
* 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]‎, 2nd 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.

### Anagrams

* prova

## Latin
### Adjective

prāvō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prāvus

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

From prȁv +‎ -o.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prâʋo/
* Hyphenation: pra‧vo

#### Adverb

prȁvo (Cyrillic spelling пра̏во)
* straight
* correctly, rightly
* justly
* strictly

#### See also

* lijevo
* desno

### Etymology 2

From prȁv +‎ -o. Calque of German Recht and French droit.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prǎːʋo/
* Hyphenation: pra‧vo

#### Noun

právo n (Cyrillic spelling пра́во)
* right
    ljudska prava ― human rights
* law
* jurisprudence

##### Derived terms

* prȃvnī
* prȃvnīk
* prȁvosūdnī
* prȁvosūđe

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

pravo
* neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of prav

#### Adjective

pravo
* neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of pravi

## Slovene
### Etymology

From prȁv +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /práːʋɔ/

### Noun

prȃvo n
* law

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “pravo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin prāvus (“depraved” ← “deformed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾabo/ [ˈpɾa.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -abo
* Syllabification: pra‧vo

### Adjective

pravo (feminine prava, masculine plural pravos, feminine plural pravas, superlative pravísimo)
* wicked, immoral, depraved

#### Related terms

* pravedad

### Further reading

* “pravo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10