different between coruscant vs glinting

English

Etymology

From Latin corusc?ns (“glittering”), present participle of corusc?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????sk?nt/

Adjective

coruscant (comparative more coruscant, superlative most coruscant)

1. Emitting flashes of light; glittering.
   • 1950, Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky, Tor, page 71:

     It had not the unbearable glory of the skies of the Central Worlds, where star elbowed star in such blinding competition that the black of night was nearly lost in a coruscant explosion of light.

French

Etymology

From Latin corusc?ns

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?ys.k??/

Adjective

coruscant (feminine singular coruscante, masculine plural coruscants, feminine plural coruscantes)

1. coruscant

Further reading

• “coruscant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?rus.kant/, [k????s?kän?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?rus.kant/, [k???usk?n?t?]

Verb

coruscant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of corusc?

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt??

Verb

glinting

1. present participle of glint

Synonyms

• aglitter
• coruscant
• fulgid
• glittering
• sparkling

Noun

glinting (plural glintings)

1. A glint.
   • 1902, William J. Long, School of the Woods

     Then, as if to contradict me, a stray sunbeam found the spot and sent curious bright glintings of sheen and shadow dancing and playing under the fallen roots and trunk.

Anagrams

• tingling