luminare

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Aromanian

Noun

luminare f

  1. Alternative form of luminari

Italian

FWOTD – 30 May 2018

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lu.miˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: lu‧mi‧nà‧re

Etymology 1

From Late Latin lūmināre (“star” ← “light” ← “opening that lets light in”).

Noun

luminare m (plural luminari)

  1. (obsolete) a shining heavenly body (especially said of the Sun and the Moon)
    • 1754, Niccolò Maria Bona, “Panegirico in onore de' SS. Cosma, e Damiano [Panegyric in honor of St. Cosmas and Damian]”, in Panegirici ed orazioni [Panegyrics and Prayers]‎, Venice: Giovanni Tevernin, page 89:
      maraviglia non è, ſe fino da' primieri lor anni […] ſì ſplendidamente eſſi folgoreggiaſſero, come i due luminari del Cielo
      it's no wonder that, ever since their early years, they were so magnificently blazing like the two lights of the sky
  2. (figurative) one who has achieved success in their field; leading light, luminary
  3. (archaeology) a vertical opening in a catacomb meant to let light and air inside
  4. (obsolete, rare) illumination, luminary
    Synonyms: illuminazione, lume, luminaria

Etymology 2

From Latin lūmināre (“to illuminate, brighten”).

Verb

luminàre (first-person singular present lùmino, first-person singular past historic luminài, past participle luminàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) to illuminate, lighten, light up
    Synonym: illuminare
    Antonyms: abbuiare, offuscare, oscurare
    • c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, G. Laterza & Figli, published 1941, page 121:
      «O chiaro Febo, per cui luminato ¶ è tutto il mondo […] »
      "O bright Phoebus, by whom the whole world is lightened "
  2. (literary, rare, intransitive) to shine, glow
    Synonym: risplendere
    • 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Novelle della Pescara‎, published 2016, page 285:
      Una specie di mollezza esotica pareva spargersi nel tramonto. Sorgevano, nella fantasia popolare, le rive favoleggiate e luminavano.
      A sort of exotic softness seemed to be spreading in the sunset. In the popular imagination, the fantasized-upon coasts were rising and shining.
Conjugation
    Conjugation of luminàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive luminàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund luminàndo
present participle luminànte past participle luminàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present lùmino lùmini lùmina luminiàmo luminàte lùminano
imperfect luminàvo luminàvi luminàva luminavàmo luminavàte luminàvano
past historic luminài luminàsti luminò luminàmmo luminàste luminàrono
future luminerò luminerài luminerà luminerémo lumineréte luminerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present luminerèi luminerésti luminerèbbe, luminerébbe luminerémmo lumineréste luminerèbbero, luminerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present lùmini lùmini lùmini luminiàmo luminiàte lùminino
imperfect luminàssi luminàssi luminàsse luminàssimo luminàste luminàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
lùmina lùmini luminiàmo luminàte lùminino
negative imperative non luminàre non lùmini non luminiàmo non luminàte non lùminino

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From lūmen (“light”) +‎ -āris.

Noun

lūmināre n (genitive lūmināris); third declension

  1. (literally) That which gives light; enlightener
  2. a window-shutter, window (that lets light in)
  3. (Late Latin, in the plural) light, lamp (such as those lighted in churches in honor of martyrs)
  4. (Late Latin, in the plural) A luminary; especially a heavenly body.
Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūmināre lūmināria
Genitive lūmināris lūminārium
Dative lūminārī lūmināribus
Accusative lūmināre lūmināria
Ablative lūminārī lūmināribus
Vocative lūmināre lūmināria
Related terms
Descendants

References

  • “luminare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • luminare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lūmināre

  1. inflection of lūminō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Romanian

Etymology

From lumina +‎ -re.

Noun

luminare f (plural luminări)

  1. act of lighting, illuminating, shining
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