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diaphanous
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diaphan?s) ('To appear/shine through '; 'dia' - through + 'phaino' - to appear).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da??æf.?n.?s/
Adjective
diaphanous (comparative more diaphanous, superlative most diaphanous)
- Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- The evening mist, drifting among the leafless poplars, veiled their silhouettes with a violet film, paler and more translucent than the most diaphanous gauze that might have caught in their branches.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
- 1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67,
- What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- (physics) Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
Synonyms
- (allowing light to pass through): translucent, transparent, see-through, sheer
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): delicate, insubstantial, sheer
Antonyms
- (transparent or translucent): opaque
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): concrete, solid
Related terms
- diaphanously
- diaphanousness
Translations
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pellicule
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pellicula (“small skin or hide”), from pellis (“a skin”) +? -cula. Cognate with French pellicule, Spanish película.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?l?kju?l/
Noun
pellicule (plural pellicules)
- A thin diaphanous fabric.
- The skin of an onion or other plant.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pellicula (“small skin or hide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?.li.kyl/, /pe.li.kyl/
Noun
pellicule f (plural pellicules)
- film, skin, thin layer
Further reading
- “pellicule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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