pregio
See also: pregiò
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin pretium, possibly borrowed as a (semi-) learned form or influenced by Gallo-Romance languages. From the same Latin source the Italian doublet prezzo.
Noun
pregio m (plural pregi)
- (archaic) price
- Synonym: prezzo
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava, Novella X [Eighth Day, Tenth Story]”, in Decamerone [Decameron][1], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 196:
- Et quivi dando […] per iſcritto tutta la mercatantia, & il pregio di quella e dato […] al mercatante un magazino, nel quale eſſo la ſua mercatantia ripone, & ferralo con la chiave
- There, he gives a list of all his merchandise, and its price, and the merchant is given a storage room, where he stores all his merchandise, locking it with the key
- regard, esteem
- Synonyms: considerazione, stima
- avere in pregio, tenere in pregio ― to value; to appreciate
- 1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici[2], collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, section 24:
- Or, ch’un superbo in sì vil pregio m’abbia ¶ che di non esser dio vegna a gran rischio? ¶ Or veggiàn se ’l meschin ch’Amor riprende, ¶ da due begli occhi se stesso or difende
- Now, does the fact that one proud man holds me in such low esteem jeopardize my becoming a god? Let us see whether the wretch who reproaches Love can now defend himself from two fair eyes
- 2007, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Storia naturale dei giganti [Natural History of Giants], Guanda:
- In Africa, attorno al 1920, le popolazioni dell'attuale Gabon tenevano in pregio le scatolette vuote di carne in scatola, ci facevano dei pentolini, dei manicotti, dei chitarrini, e ci arredavano la casa
- Around 1920, in Africa, the peoples of modern-day Gabon valued empty cans of canned meat, making small pots, sleeves, and small guitars out of them, and using them to furnish their houses
- (literary) praise, merit, virtue, glory
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto VIII, page 122, lines 124–129:
- La fama che la vostra casa onora, ¶ grida i segnori e grida la contrada, ¶ sì che ne sa chi non vi fu ancora; ¶ e io vi giuro, s'io di sopra vada, ¶ che vostra gente onrata non si sfregia ¶ del pregio de la borsa e de la spada.
- That fame, which doeth honour to your house, proclaims its Signors and proclaims its land, so that he knows of them who ne'er was there. And, as I hope for heaven, I swear to you your honoured family in naught abates the glory of the purse and of the sword.
- worth, value
- Synonym: valore
- (archaic) reputation, name
- Synonyms: nomea, reputazione
Usage notes
- The sense “regard, esteem” could originally be used in both the negative and positive sense, but modern usage only contemplates the latter one.
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pregio
Anagrams
References
- pregio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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