pranso
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prānsus, perfect passive participle of prandeō (“I eat”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
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- (literary, archaic) fed, sated
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXVIII, page 416, lines 76–78:
- Quali si stanno ruminando manse ¶ le capre, state rapide e proterve ¶ sovra le cime avante che sien pranse
- Even as in ruminating passive grow the goats, who have been swift and venturesome upon the mountain-tops ere they were fed
- Synonym: sazio
Related terms
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) prānsō