pulcro
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pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcri, feminine plural pulcre)
- (archaic, literary) beautiful, fair
- Synonym: bello
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, p. 111, vv. 58-60:
- «[...] Mal dare e mal tener lo mondo pulcro ¶ ha tolto loro, e posti a questa zuffa: ¶ qual ella sia, parole non ci appulcro. [...]»
- «[...] Ill giving and ill keeping the fair world ¶ have ta'en from them, and placed them in this scuffle; ¶ whate'er it be, no words adorn I for it. [...]»
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pulcrō
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- Hyphenation: pul‧cro
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pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
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From Latin pulchrum, accusative form of pulcher.
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pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
Further reading edit
- “pulcro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014