Italian–English dictionary

presentabile

Fair; acceptable; okay.

presentare

(intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.

presentarsi

(transitive, now, rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court. [from 14th c.]

presentatoio

A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.

presentatore

One who makes announcements.

presentatrice

A female anchorperson.

presentazione

The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.

presente

Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

presentimento

A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.

presenza

The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.

presepe

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

preservare

To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

preservativo

Tending to preserve.

preservazione

The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

preside

A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).

presidente

A person presiding over a meeting.

presidente della repubblica

The head of state of a republic.

presidentessa

A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

presidentessa della repubblica

The head of state of a republic.

presidenziale

Pertaining to a president or presidency. [from 17th c.]

presiedere

(transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

presina

An insulated pad used for handling hot cooking utensils

pressa

(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

pressante

Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.

pressare

(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

pressione

The pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the arteries and veins; it varies during the heartbeat cycle, and according to a person's age, health and physical condition.

presso

(mail) For distribution by (the named intermediary).

pressurizzazione

The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.

prestabilito

Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.

prestanome

(by extension) Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has little to no actual power.

prestante

(of people) Worthy of respect; dignified, regal.

prestare

(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

prestare attenzione

To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

prestare orecchio

(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

prestatore

One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.

prestazione

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.

prestidigitatore

One who works with illusion or sleight of hand.

prestigiatore

One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

prestigio

The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

prestigioso

Of high prestige.

prestito

(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

prestito linguistico

A word directly taken into one language from another one.

presto

Very soon.

presule

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

presumere

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

presumibilmente

As a matter of supposition; in the beliefs or according to the claims of some people.

presuntivo

Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.

presunto

Supposed but doubtful.

presuntuosa

A self-important or pretentious person.

presuntuoso

A self-important or pretentious person.

presunzione

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]

presupporre

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

presupposizione

The act of presupposing.

presupposto

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

prete

A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.

pretendente

One who claims; one who makes a claim.

pretendere

To request forcefully.

pretenzioso

(used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.

pretesa

An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

pretesco

Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.

pretesto

(slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.

prettamente

In a limited manner; only

prevalente

Predominant; of greatest force.

prevalenza

(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

prevalere

(intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

prevaricare

(pejorative, intransitive, transitive) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly; sometimes extended sarcastically even to those not paid but strongly biased in favor.

prevedere

(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.

prevedibile

(informal) inevitable; settled

preveggenza

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

prevenire

(transitive) To prevent something from happening.

preventivo

(specifically, _, in, business, and, construction) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.

prevenuto

Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

prevenzione

(obsolete) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

previdenza

(uncountable) The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.

previo

(not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.

previsione

An estimation of a future condition.

previsto

(finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.

previsualizzare

(computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

previsualizzazione

(computing) A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

preziosissimo

(by, extension) So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price. [from 1590s]

prezioso

Having great or incalculable value.

prezzo

The amount of money levied for a service.

prezzo del biglietto

The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.

Priamo

(Greek mythology) The king of Troy during the Iliad

prigione

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

prigione militare

(colloquial) A military prison.

prigione sotterranea

An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

prigionia

(legal) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

prigioniera

A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.

prigioniero

A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

prima

At an earlier time.

prima cittadina

(Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

prima colazione

The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

prima d'ora

(formal, temporal) Before now, until now, up to the present time; from the beginning to this point.

prima di tutto

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.

prima infanzia

The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).

prima linea

(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.

prima o poi

(dated) In time to come; in some future time or state.

primadonna

(derogatory) A person who considers themself much more important than others, has high expectations of others and becomes angry when their demands are not met.

primariamente

(focus) Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.

primario

First in importance, degree, or rank.

primate

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.

primato

The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

primavera

(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

primeggiare

(intransitive) To be much better than others.

primitivo

(not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

primo

Of or belonging to a first family.

primo cittadino

(Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.

primo piano

(photography) A photographic (or other) image in which the subject is shown at a relatively large scale, and occupies most or all of the frame.

primo sole

The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.

primogenito

Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.

primordiale

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors

primordio

(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

primula

(botany) Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses.

principale

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

principalmente

(focus) Mainly or principally; almost entirely.

Principato di Monaco

A city-state in Western Europe. Official name: Principality of Monaco.

principe elettore

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

principe nutritivo

A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.

principessa

A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch. [from 14th c.]

principiante

Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

principio

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

prione

(molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.

priore

In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.

priorità

(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

prioritario

Of the highest importance.

priorizzazione

The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.

pristino

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

privacy

(uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.

privare

(transitive, archaic) To deprive; to cut off. [First attested around 1150–1350]

privata

Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.

privatamente

Privately, in an area where no one else can see or hear.

privatezza

(uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.

privatizzare

(transitive) To transfer the control and ownership of an industry from government to private hands; to privatize.

privatizzazione

The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.

privato

Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.

privazione

(countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

privilegiare

To look upon fondly; to prefer.

privilegio

(informal) Perquisite.

privo

Having no supplies.

privo di significato

Lacking meaning.

pro

Supporting, in favour of.

pro bonu

(legal, medicine) Without charging a fee, done without fee, generally for clients or patients of limited means.

pro capite

Per person.

pro-

With familial designations, used to denote a removal of one generation

proattivo

Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

probabile

Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.

probabilità

(countable) The probability of something happening.

probabilmente

In all likelihood.

probatorio

Of or providing evidence.