relucir

Galician

Alternative forms

• reluzir (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reluzir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin relūcēre.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /reluˈθiɾ/ [re.luˈθiɾ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /reluˈθiɾ/ [re.luˈθiɾ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /reluˈsiɾ/ [re.luˈsiɾ]

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: re‧lu‧cir

Verb

relucir (first-person singular present reluzo, third-person singular present reloce, first-person singular preterite relucín, past participle relucido)

1. to glisten, glint, sparkle

Conjugation

    Conjugation of relucir (u-o alternation in present singular; c-z alternation)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	relucir
Personal	relucir	relucires	relucir	relucirmos	relucirdes	reluciren
Gerund
	relucindo
Past participle
Masculine	relucido			relucidos
Feminine	relucida			relucidas
Indicative
Present	reluzo	reloces	reloce	relucimos	relucides	relocen
Imperfect	relucía	relucías	relucía	reluciamos	reluciades	relucían
Preterite	relucín	reluciches	reluciu	relucimos	relucistes	reluciron
Pluperfect	relucira	reluciras	relucira	reluciramos	relucirades	reluciran
Future	relucirei	relucirás	relucirá	reluciremos	reluciredes	relucirán
Conditional	reluciría	relucirías	reluciría	reluciriamos	reluciriades	relucirían
Subjunctive
Present	reluza	reluzas	reluza	reluzamos	reluzades	reluzan
Imperfect	relucise	relucises	relucise	relucísemos	relucísedes	relucisen
Future	relucir	relucires	relucir	relucirmos	relucirdes	reluciren
Imperative
Affirmative		reluce	reluza	reluzamos	relucide	reluzan
Negative (non)		non reluzas	non reluza	non reluzamos	non reluzades	non reluzan

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “reluzir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “reluz”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “relucir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “relucir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “relucir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin relūcēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /reluˈθiɾ/ [re.luˈθiɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /reluˈsiɾ/ [re.luˈsiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧lu‧cir

Verb

relucir (first-person singular present reluzco, first-person singular preterite relucí, past participle relucido)

1. to glisten

Conjugation

    Conjugation of relucir (c-zc alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			relucir
gerund			reluciendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		relucido		relucida
		plural		relucidos		relucidas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	reluzco	relucestú relucísvos	reluce	relucimos	relucís	relucen
	imperfect	relucía	relucías	relucía	relucíamos	relucíais	relucían
	preterite	relucí	reluciste	relució	relucimos	relucisteis	relucieron
	future	reluciré	relucirás	relucirá	reluciremos	reluciréis	relucirán
	conditional	reluciría	relucirías	reluciría	reluciríamos	reluciríais	relucirían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	reluzca	reluzcastú reluzcásvos2	reluzca	reluzcamos	reluzcáis	reluzcan
	imperfect (ra)	reluciera	relucieras	reluciera	reluciéramos	relucierais	relucieran
	imperfect (se)	reluciese	relucieses	reluciese	reluciésemos	relucieseis	reluciesen
	future1	reluciere	relucieres	reluciere	reluciéremos	reluciereis	relucieren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		relucetú relucívos	reluzca	reluzcamos	relucid	reluzcan
	negative		no reluzcas	no reluzca	no reluzcamos	no reluzcáis	no reluzcan

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• no es oro todo lo que reluce
• sacar a relucir

 

Related terms

• lucir
• reluciente

 

Further reading

• “relucir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014