Pracht
Appearance
See also: pracht
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German braht, from Old High German braht, from Proto-Germanic *brahtaz.
Noun
[edit]Pracht f (genitive Pracht, plural (rare) Prachten)
- splendor, resplendence, magnificence, pomp
- 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:
- Droben am Himmel funkelten die Sterne in seltener Pracht.
- Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.
- 1846, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, “Das große Welttheater”, in Joseph von Eichendorff, transl., Geistliche Schauspiele, J.G. Cotta, page 66f.:
- Doch, daß des Festes Dichtung, / Wie sich's gebühret, auch mit allen Prachten / Der Scenerie und mit dem Schmuck der Trachten / Ergötzlich blende, / So rüste du verschwendrisch und behende / Die holden Scheine, / Daß Jeder Wirkliches zu schauen meine.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11:
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pracht [feminine]
Hyponyms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
[edit]Pracht n (proper noun, genitive Prachts or (optionally with an article) Pracht)
- A municipality in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pracht [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
Further reading
[edit]- “Pracht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pracht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Pracht” in Duden online
- Pracht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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