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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin rutilō, rutilāre (“to redden”), derived from rutilus (“having a warm or yellowish red colo(u)r; strawberry blonde”, adjective), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ru.tiˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ru‧ti‧là‧re
Verb
rutilàre (first-person singular present rùtilo, first-person singular past historic rutilài, past participle rutilàto, no auxiliary) (literary, intransitive)
- to have a vibrant red colo(u)r
- Hypernym: rosseggiare
- (loosely) to shine
- Synonyms: (literary) rifulgere, risplendere, splendere
References
- rutilare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Verb
rutilāre
- inflection of rutilō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Spanish
Verb
rutilare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of rutilar