pranso

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin prānsus, perfect passive participle of prandeō (“to eat”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈpran.so/
  • Rhymes: -anso
  • Hyphenation: pràn‧so

Adjective[edit]

pranso (feminine pransa, masculine plural pransi, feminine plural pranse)

  1. (literary, archaic) fed, sated
    Synonym: sazio
    • early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Quali si stanno ruminando manse
      le capre, state rapide e proterve
      sovra le cime avante che sien pranse […]
      Like the meek ruminating goats, having been swift and haughty upon the mountaintops before being sated […]

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Further reading[edit]

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

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Latin[edit]

Participle[edit]

prānsō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prānsus
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