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Italian
Verb
illustro
- first-person singular present indicative of illustrare
Latin
Etymology
From in- + lūstrō (“to purify via sacrifice; to illuminate”).
Pronunciation
Verb
illūstrō (present infinitive illūstrāre, perfect active illūstrāvī, supine illūstrātum); first conjugation
- to illuminate, brighten, light up
- to elucidate, explain, make clear
- to make famous, render illustrious
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “illustro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- illustro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
- to write expositions of philosophy in Latin: philosophiam latinis litteris illustrare (Acad. 1. 1. 3)
- to depict a thing in lively colours: summo colore aliquid illustrare
- illustro in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016