pregio
See also: pregiò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɛ.d͡ʒo/
- Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
- Hyphenation: prè‧gio
Etymology 1
From Latin pretium, possibly influenced by Gallo-Italic. From the same Latin source the Italian doublet prezzo.
Noun
pregio m (plural pregi)
- (archaic) price
- Synonym: prezzo
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava – Novella decima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- e quivi, dando […] per iscritto tutta la mercatantia ed il pregio di quella, è dato […] al mercatante un magazzino nel quale esso la sua mercatantia ripone, e serralo 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, 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
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 127–129; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] io vi giuro, s'io di sopra vada,
che vostra gente onrata non si sfregia
del pregio de la borsa e de la spada.- As I hope for heaven, I swear to you your honoured/honored 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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- pregio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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