splendeo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *spln̥d-eh₁- (“to be manifest”). Cognate with Old Irish sluindid (“to express, declare”) and also Old Cornish splan (“shining, splendid”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.de.oː/, [ˈs̠pɫ̪ɛn̪d̪eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.de.o/, [ˈsplɛn̪d̪eo]
Verb edit
splendeō (present infinitive splendēre, perfect active splenduī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to shine, glitter, gleam, glisten; to be bright
- (figuratively) to be bright, distinguished or illustrious
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
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Descendants edit
- Italian: splendere
References edit
- “splendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “splendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- splendeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN