coruscant
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin coruscāns (“glittering”), present participle of coruscō.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcoruscant (comparative more coruscant, superlative most coruscant)
- Emitting flashes of light; glittering.
- 1950, Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky, Tor, page 71:
- It had not the unbearable glory of the skies of the Central Worlds, where star elbowed star in such blinding competition that the black of night was nearly lost in a coruscant explosion of light.
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin coruscantem.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcoruscant (feminine coruscante, masculine plural coruscants, feminine plural coruscantes)
- coruscant
Further reading
edit- “coruscant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [kɔˈrʊs̠kän̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [koˈruskän̪t̪]
Verb
editcoruscant
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