pulcro

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin pulcher, pulchrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpul.kro/
• Rhymes: -ulkro
• Hyphenation: pùl‧cro

Adjective

pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcri, feminine plural pulcre)

1. (obsolete, literary, rare) beautiful, fair

   Synonym: bello

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Mal dare e mal tener lo mondo pulcro
     ha tolto loro, e posti a questa zuffa:
     qual ella sia, parole non ci appulcro.

     Wrong giving and wrong keeping has taken the fair world away from them, and placed them in this scuffle: whatever it be, I will not put words to embellish it.

References

• pulcro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

pulcrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pulcer

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulchrum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.kɾu/ [ˈpuʊ̯.kɾu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.kɾu/ [ˈpuʊ̯.kɾu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.kɾo/ [ˈpuʊ̯.kɾo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.kɾu/ [ˈpuɫ.kɾu]

• Hyphenation: pul‧cro

Adjective

pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)

1. (poetic) pretty, neat

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pulchrum, accusative form of pulcher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulkɾo/ [ˈpul.kɾo]
• Rhymes: -ulkɾo
• Syllabification: pul‧cro

Adjective

pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)

1. tidy, neat
2. (poetic) pretty, beautiful

Further reading

• “pulcro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28