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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

coraggioso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ko-rah-joh-so

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Brave/breɪv/
adjectiveverbnounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #950 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il pompiere coraggioso ha salvato il bambino dall'edificio in fiamme."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having or showing courage; not afraid to face danger.

    "The brave firefighter rescued the child from the burning building."
As verb
  1. 1

    To face or endure something difficult or unpleasant.

    "She had to brave the storm to reach her destination."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle French brave, which likely came from Italian bravo (meaning courageous, wild, or fierce), ultimately tracing back to Latin barbarus or a Mediterranean substrate root. Historically used to denote ferocious or daring military conduct, the term evolved in European vernaculars to generally signify moral or physical courage in the face of fear.

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