pulcro
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin pulcher, pulchrum.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcri, feminine plural pulcre)
- (obsolete, literary, rare) beautiful, fair
- Synonym: bello
- mid 1300s–mid 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], 2nd 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 edit
- pulcro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Adjective edit
pulcrō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pul‧cro
Adjective edit
pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pulchrum, accusative form of pulcher.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
Further reading edit
- “pulcro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014