lambent
Meaninglicking
Common meaning: softly glowing
Other meanings: flickering
- lambto lickLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1031 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
Journey through time
- Latinlambō, -ere‘to lick’
- Englishlambent‘softly glowing’ · today
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 lambō ‘to lick’.
Roots
- lambō, -ere Latin “to lick”
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