onorato

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin honōrātus, perfect passive participle of honōrō (to honor, respect). Cognate with Piedmontese onorà.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /o.noˈra.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: o‧no‧rà‧to

Adjective

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onorato (feminine onorata, masculine plural onorati, feminine plural onorate, superlative onoratissimo)

  1. honoured/honored
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XVI, page 295, lines 136–141:
      La casa di che nacque il vostro fleto, ¶ per lo giusto disdegno che v’ha morti ¶ e puose fine al vostro viver lieto, ¶ era onorata, essa e i suoi consorti: ¶ o Buondelmonte, quanto mal fuggisti ¶ le nozze süe per li altrui conforti!
      The house from which is born your lamentation, through just disdain that death among you brought and put an end unto your joyous life, was honoured/honored in itself and its companions. O Buondelmonte, how in evil hour thou fled'st the bridal at another's promptings!
  2. honorable

Derived terms

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Participle

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onorato (feminine onorata, masculine plural onorati, feminine plural onorate)

  1. past participle of onorare

Further reading

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  • onorato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana