preta

From Sanskrit प्रेत (preta).

preta (plural pretas)

1. A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)

• terra preta

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

From French prêt, ultimately from Latin praestō (“ready, present, at hand”, adverb). Compare Italian presto.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpreta]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: pre‧ta

preta (accusative singular pretan, plural pretaj, accusative plural pretajn)

1. ready, set (prepared)

preta (intransitive)

1. to burst

• breta

Inherited from Latin petra.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛːtə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈpreːtə]

preta f (plural prete)

1. stone

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1674: “butta via queste pietre!” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “preta”, in Schedario Napoletano

• Hyphenation: pre‧ta

preta

1. feminine singular of preto

preta f (plural pretas)

1. female equivalent of preto

Borrowed from French prêter.

a preta (third-person singular present pretează, past participle pretat) 1st conj.

1. lend itself to