coruscant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin coruscāns (“glittering”), present participle of coruscō.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
coruscant (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 edit
Etymology edit
From Latin coruscantem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
coruscant (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 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [kɔˈrʊs̠kän̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [koˈruskän̪t̪]
Verb edit
coruscant