Ravennate

Meanings

adjectiveRavennate (comparative more Ravennate, superlative most Ravennate)

Of, from, or concerning Ravenna, a major city in Italy.
He held at first that this work had originated from a Ravennate workshop.
1958, Pieter Singelenberg, “The Iconography of the Etschmiadzin Diptych and the Healing of the Blind Man at Siloe”, in Art Bulletin
Synonyms: Ravennese, Ravennan

nounRavennate (plural Ravennates)

rareOne of the Ravennese: a native or inhabitant of Ravenna in Italy.
...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.
1980, Dragmalogia of Giovanni da Ravenna on the Preferable Way of Life, volume 7

adjectiveOf, from, or concerning Ravenna, a major city in Italy.

Similar

Ravennate · adjective

From Ravenna + -ate (adjective-forming suffix); an anglicized form of Italian ravennate and Latin Ravennās through incorrectly associated endings (see Latin -ās).

More words from Italian, Latin

Ravennate · noun

From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Ravenna + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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