illustre
See also: illustré
English
Adjective
illustre (comparative more illustre, superlative most illustre)
Verb
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- (obsolete) To illuminate
- (obsolete) To make illustrious
Derived terms
- illustrated (made illustrious)
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.lystʁ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ystʁ
- Homophones: illustrent, illustres
Adjective
illustre (plural illustres)
- illustrious
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXXIII:
- À Florence, riche et fameuse ville d’Italie, dans la province qu’on appelle Toscane, vivaient deux gentilshommes d’illustre famille, Anselme et Lothaire....
- In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy, in the province called Tuscany, lived two gentlemen of illustrious family, Anselmo and Lothario....
Verb
illustre
- first-person singular present indicative of illustrer
- third-person singular present indicative of illustrer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of illustrer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of illustrer
- second-person singular imperative of illustrer
Further reading
- “illustre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“I illustrate”).
Adjective
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Synonyms
Derived terms
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) illūstre
- nominative neuter singular of illūstris
- accusative neuter singular of illūstris
- vocative neuter singular of illūstris
References
- “illustre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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