luculento
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lūculentus, derived from lūx (“light”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]luculento (feminine luculenta, masculine plural luculenti, feminine plural luculente)
- (archaic, literary) bright, shining, luculent
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, p. 401, vv. 28-30:
- [...] e la maggiore e la più luculenta ¶ di quelle margherite innanzi fessi, ¶ per far di sé la mia voglia contenta.
- [...] and now the largest and most luculent ¶ among those pearls came forward, that it might ¶ make my desire concerning it content.
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, (Angelo Solerti, Rime disperse di Francesco Petrarca o a lui attribuite, G. C. Sansoni (1909), p.149):
- Vedo per modo tal del ciel la luce ¶ più luculenta qui pallida farse, [...]
- Thuswise I see the heavens' ¶ brightest light paling here, [...]
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lūculentō
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