Ravennate

See also: ravennate

English

Etymology

Ravenna + -ate; an anglicized form of Italian ravennate and Latin Ravennatus

Adjective

Ravennate (comparative more Ravennate, superlative most Ravennate)

  1. (geography) Of, from, or concerning Ravenna, a major city in Italy.
    • 1958, Pieter Singelenberg, "The Iconography of the Etschmiadzin Diptych and the Healing of the Blind Man at Siloe" in Art Bulletin
      He held at first that this work had originated from a Ravennate workshop.

Synonyms

Noun

Ravennate (plural Ravennates)

  1. (rare) One of the Ravennese: a native or inhabitant of Ravenna in Italy.
    • 1980, Dragmalogia of Giovanni da Ravenna on the Preferable Way of Life, Vol. 7
      ...shortly after he arrived in his adopted city the signore Guido II da Polenta appointed Giovanni as one of the Ravennates who served as foreign notaries at the podesla's court in Florence.

Latin

Adjective

Ravennāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of Ravennātus
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