pravus

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

prāvus adj.

with comp.and sup, crooked, distorted, misshapen, deformed: si quae in membris prava sunt: talus, H.—Fig., perverse, irregular, improper, wrong, vicious, bad: nihil pravum, perversum: dociles imitandis Turpibus et pravis, Iu. —Plurn. as subst: qui recta prava faciunt, rascality, T.: quo pravius nihil esse possit: pravissima consuetudinis regula: belua (i. e. stulta), H.

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