splendor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- splendour (British, Canadian)
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere (“to shine”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsplɛndə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsplɛndɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Noun edit
splendor (usually uncountable, plural splendors) (American spelling)
- Great light, luster or brilliance.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Rhinoceros got its skin”, in Just So Stories:
- Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.
- Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
- The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
- Great fame or glory.
Usage notes edit
Splendor is the standard spelling in American English. Splendour is correct in modern British and Commonwealth English.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
magnificent appearance
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.dor/, [ˈs̠pɫ̪ɛn̪d̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.dor/, [ˈsplɛn̪d̪or]
Noun edit
splendor m (genitive splendōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | splendor | splendōrēs |
Genitive | splendōris | splendōrum |
Dative | splendōrī | splendōribus |
Accusative | splendōrem | splendōrēs |
Ablative | splendōre | splendōribus |
Vocative | splendor | splendōrēs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “splendor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “splendor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
- to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
splendor oblique singular, f (oblique plural splendors, nominative singular splendor, nominative plural splendors)
- splendor (brilliant brightness)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (splendor)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
splendor m inan
Declension edit
Declension of splendor
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | splendor | splendory |
genitive | splendoru | splendorów |
dative | splendorowi | splendorom |
accusative | splendor | splendory |
instrumental | splendorem | splendorami |
locative | splendorze | splendorach |
vocative | splendorze | splendory |
Further reading edit
- splendor in Polish dictionaries at PWN