prescelto

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /preʃˈʃel.to/
  • Rhymes: -elto
  • Hyphenation: pre‧scél‧to

Adjective

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prescelto (feminine prescelta, masculine plural prescelti, feminine plural prescelte)

  1. chosen as the best or favorite; chosen

Noun

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prescelto m (plural prescelti, feminine prescelta)

  1. person chosen in a field of many as best suited to a certain task or purpose
    • 2020 August 11, Massimo Basile, “Diritti civili, e politica "senza rancore": così Kamala Harris ha conquistato Biden [Civil rights, and politics "without grudges": this is how Kamala Harris won Biden over]”, in la Repubblica[1]:
      Ma era proprio lei, la prescelta.
      But it was exactly her, the chosen one.

Participle

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prescelto (feminine prescelta, masculine plural prescelti, feminine plural prescelte)

  1. past participle of prescegliere