glister
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English glisteren, either borrowed from or related to Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch glisteren; like a host of other Germanic words in gl- related to shining, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.
Verb edit
glister (third-person singular simple present glisters, present participle glistering, simple past and past participle glistered)
- (intransitive, archaic) To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
- All that gliſters is not gold.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[Du Bartas His First VVeek, or Birth of the VVorld: […].] The Fift Daie of the First VVeek.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 140:
- But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.
- 1945, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lay of Autrou and Itroun:
- […] strangely she glistered in the sun / as she leaped forth in the sun […]
Translations edit
Noun edit
glister (plural glisters)
Etymology 2 edit
Compare Old French glistere.
Noun edit
glister (plural glisters)
- Alternative form of clyster