illustro
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]illustro
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + lūstrō (“to purify via sacrifice; to illuminate”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ilˈluːs.troː/, [ɪlˈlʲuːs̠t̪roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ilˈlus.tro/, [ilˈlust̪ro]
Verb
[edit]illūstrō (present infinitive illūstrāre, perfect active illūstrāvī, supine illūstrātum); first conjugation
- to illuminate, brighten, light up
- to elucidate, explain, make clear
- to make famous, render illustrious
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of illūstrō (first conjugation)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: il·lustrar
- → English: illustrate
- → Esperanto: ilustri
- → French: illustrer
- → German: illustrieren
- → Hungarian: illusztrál
- → Ido: ilustrar
- → Italian: illustrare
- → Neapolitan: llostrare
- → Piedmontese: ilustré
- → Portuguese: ilustrar
- → Romanian: ilustra
- → Russian: иллюстрировать (illjustrirovatʹ)
- → Spanish: ilustrar
References
[edit]- “illustro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- illustro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
- to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3)
- to depict a thing in lively colours: summo colore aliquid illustrare
- to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
- illustro in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016