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clarissa

See also: Clarissa

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

Noun

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clarissa (plural clarissas)

  1. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
    • 2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:
      […] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

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From Medieval Latin clarissa.

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clarissa f (plural clarisses)

  1. Poor Clare (member of the Order of Saint Clare)
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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more.

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clarissa f (plural clarisse)

  1. Poor Clare (a member of the Order of Saint Clare)

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Adjective

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clarissa (masculine plural clarissi, feminine plural clarisse)

  1. (relational) of the Order of Saint Clare; Clarissan

Latin

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Etymology

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From Clara +‎ -issa (“-ess”), from Old Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order.

Pronunciation 1

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Noun

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clarissa f

  1. (Medieval Latin) Poor Clare, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.

Adjective

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clarissa

  1. inflection of clarissus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Pronunciation 2

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Adjective

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clarissā

  1. ablative feminine singular of clarissus
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