luculento

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lūculentus, derived from lūx (“light”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lu.kuˈlɛn.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
  • Hyphenation: lu‧cu‧lèn‧to

Adjective

luculento (feminine luculenta, masculine plural luculenti, feminine plural luculente)

  1. (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

Adjective

lūculentō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of lūculentus
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