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Italian
Etymology
From Latin lūculentus, derived from lūx (“light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu.kuˈlɛn.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛnto
- Hyphenation: lu‧cu‧lèn‧to
Adjective
luculento (feminine luculenta, masculine plural luculenti, feminine plural luculente)
- (archaic, literary) bright, shining, luculent
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, p. 401, vv. 28-30:[...] e la maggiore e la più luculenta ¶ di quelle margherite innanzi fessi, ¶ per far di sé la mia voglia contenta.- and now the largest and most luculent ¶ among those pearls came forward, that it might ¶ make my desire concerning it content.
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, (Angelo Solerti, Rime disperse di Francesco Petrarca o a lui attribuite, G. C. Sansoni (1909), p.149):
Vedo per modo tal del ciel la luce ¶ più luculenta qui pallida farse, [...]- Thuswise I see the heavens' ¶ brightest light paling here,
Latin
Adjective
lūculentō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of lūculentus