effulgent
Meaningshining out
Common meaning: shining brightly
- efout
- fulgto flash, gleamLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 789 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘out’ + ‘to flash, gleam’ → effulgent
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin fulgeō ‘to flash, gleam’.
Roots
- fulgeō, fulsī Latin “to flash, gleam”
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