splendorifer
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From splendor (“splendor, brightness”) + -fer
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /splenˈdoː.ri.fer/, [s̠pɫ̪ɛn̪ˈd̪oːrɪfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /splenˈdo.ri.fer/, [splen̪ˈd̪ɔːrifer]
Adjective
[edit]splendōrifer (feminine splendōrifera, neuter splendōriferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- (Late Latin) bringing brightness or splendor
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Descendants
[edit]- → English: splendiferous
References
[edit]- “splendorifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- splendorifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “splendiferus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC