different between dignity vs lustre

English

Etymology

From Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin d?gnit?s (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from d?gnus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?-nos, from *de?- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n?ti/

Noun

dignity (countable and uncountable, plural dignities)

1. The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
   • 1752, Henry Fielding, Amelia, I. viii

     He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

   • 1981, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, art. 5

     Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.

2. Decorum, formality, stateliness.
   • 1934, Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay:

     Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

3. High office, rank, or station.
   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231:

     He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
4. One holding high rank; a dignitary.
5. (obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

Synonyms

• worth
• worthiness

Coordinate terms

• augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulness

Related terms

• deign
• dignified
• dignify

Translations

See also

• affirmation
• integrity
• self-respect
• self-esteem
• self-worth

• dignity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dignity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tidying

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?st?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).

Noun

lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
2. (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.

3. A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons
4. (dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres

Antonyms

• dullness
• lacklustre

Derived terms

• lustreware

Related terms

• lustrous

Translations

Verb

lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lustrum. See luster (etymology 2)

Noun

lustre (plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (a lustrum)

Translations

Anagrams

• Ulster, lurest, luster, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin lustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?lus.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?e/

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum (period of five years)

Related terms

• llustre

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyst?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?strum.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum; period of five years
2. (figuratively) a very long time

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, chandelier
2. gloss, shine, lustre

Related terms

• lustrage
• lustrer
• lustrine

Descendants

• Russian: ??????? f (ljústra)

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

lustre f pl

1. feminine plural of lustro

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre; shine

Portuguese

Etymology

From French lustre.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lu?.t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?i/, /?lu?.t?i/
• Hyphenation: lus?tre

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. chandelier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lust?e/, [?lus.t??e]

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, shine

Verb

lustre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lustrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lustrar.

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.