clarissa

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

Noun

clarissa (plural clarissas)

  1. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
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      […] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin clarissa.

Pronunciation

Noun

clarissa f (plural clarisses)

  1. Poor Clare (member of the Order of Saint Clare)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more.

Noun

clarissa f (plural clarisse)

  1. Poor Clare (a member of the Order of Saint Clare)

Alternative forms

Adjective

clarissa (masculine plural clarissi, feminine plural clarisse)

  1. (relational) of the Order of Saint Clare; Clarissan

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Clara +‎ -issa (“-ess”), from Old Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order.

Pronunciation 1

Noun

clarissa f

  1. (Medieval Latin) Poor Clare, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.

Adjective

clarissa

  1. inflection of clarissus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Pronunciation 2

Adjective

clarissā

  1. ablative feminine singular of clarissus
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