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156 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

il bon pretone

Context:

Monsignor Pucci era l'informatore vaticano dei correspondenti esteri a Roma. Era un bel...

Keywords:

...tipo di prelato romano, intelligente e sornione. Cercava di persuadere ogni corrispndente che il servizio era fatto per lui solo. "Una esclusiva assoluta," diceva il buon pretone...Ironical, in this case, as he financially profited from it.

 

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156 months ago

  See profile wrote:

the benevolent priest

My comment:

I suppose Pretone is referring to a priest, and according to context you put, this might fit

156 months ago

Josephine Cassar  See profile wrote:

the benevolent priest

My comment:

I suppose Pretone is referring to a priest, and according to context you put, this might fit

156 months ago

Robert Tucker  See profile wrote:

the larger-than-life priest

My comment:

-one is a suffix in Italian meaning large. (Possibly not native-enough speaker of Italian to entirely judge the sense here)

156 months ago

Robert Tucker  See profile wrote:

the good-natured/affable priest

My comment:

"pretone" suggests he's a nice guy, the salt of the earth.

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