splendent

English

Etymology

Latin splendens, splendentis, present participle of splendere (“to shine”).

Adjective

splendent (comparative more splendent, superlative most splendent)

1. shining; glossy; lustrous

   splendent planets

   splendent metals

2. Very conspicuous; illustrious.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir H. Wotton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     great and splendent fortunes

3. (archaic) splendid, marvellous, wonderful
   • 1814, The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., The Vision of Paradise, Complete‎^[1]:

     --And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me.

   • 1759, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)‎^[2]:

     July 1st, Daun had crossed the Elbe (Daun let us say for brevity, though it is Daun and Karl, or even Karl and Daun, Karl being chief, and capable of saying so at times, though Daun is very splendent since Kolin),--crossed the Elbe above Brandeis; Nadasti, with precursor Pandours, now within an hour's march of Jung-Bunzlau;--and it was time to go.

   • 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia‎^[3]:

     After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian Leria, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with Melanthia, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece,[A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) splendent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of splendeō