splendor
English
Alternative forms
- splendour (British, Canadian)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
splendor (usually uncountable, plural splendors) (American spelling)
- Great light, luster or brilliance.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Just So Stories; How the Rhinoceros got its skin:
- "Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour."
- Rudyard Kipling, The Just So Stories; How the Rhinoceros got its skin:
- Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
- The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
- Great fame or glory.
Usage notes
Splendor is the standard spelling in American English. Splendour is correct in modern British and Commonwealth English.
Translations
magnificent appearance
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.dor/, [ˈs̠pɫ̪ɛn̪d̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsplen.dor/, [ˈsplɛn̪d̪or]
Noun
splendor m (genitive splendōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | splendor | splendōrēs |
Genitive | splendōris | splendōrum |
Dative | splendōrī | splendōribus |
Accusative | splendōrem | splendōrēs |
Ablative | splendōre | splendōribus |
Vocative | splendor | splendōrēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: esplendor
- English: splendor
- French: splendeur
- Italian: splendore
- Portuguese: esplendor
- Spanish: esplendor
References
- “splendor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “splendor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
- to sully one's fair fame: vitae splendori(em) maculas(is) aspergere
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
splendor oblique singular, f (oblique plural splendors, nominative singular splendor, nominative plural splendors)
- splendor (brilliant brightness)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (splendor)
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
splendor m inan
Declension
Declension of splendor
singular | plural | |
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nominative | splendor | splendory |
genitive | splendoru | splendorów |
dative | splendorowi | splendorom |
accusative | splendor | splendory |
instrumental | splendorem | splendorami |
locative | splendorze | splendorach |
vocative | splendorze | splendory |
Further reading
- splendor in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Template:R:PWN
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