different between gloria vs glory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gloria. Doublet of glory.

Noun

gloria (countable and uncountable, plural glorias)

1. A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses.
2. (religion, countable) A doxology.
   • 1855, The Colonial Church chronicle, and missionary journal

     The glorias, canticles, and some translations of popular hymns are admirably sung; I do not know that I ever heard congregational singing more effective.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

gloria

1. glory (optical phenomenon)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gl?ria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?.rja/
• Hyphenation: glò?ria

Noun

gloria f (plural glorie)

1. glory
2. praise

Related terms

Anagrams

• algori, giralo, raglio, ragliò, riloga

Ladin

Noun

gloria f (plural glories)

1. glory

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??lo?.ri.a/, [????o??iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??lo.ri.a/, [??l???i?]

Etymology 1

For *gn?ria, maybe through *gnoris (“knowledge”) (compare Ancient Greek ???????? (gn?rimos, “well-known, familiar”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know, recognize”). For the dissimilation compare gr?ma from Ancient Greek ????? (gnôma). Cognate with gn?vus, gn?rus, ign?r? (with no dissimilation), n?rr?, and also n?sc?.

Noun

gl?ria f (genitive gl?riae); first declension

1. glory, renown, fame, honor
2. vocative singular of gl?ria

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• sic transit gloria mundi

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gl?ri? f

1. ablative singular of gl?ria

References

• gloria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gloria in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gloria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gloria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• gloria in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 265f
• Kölligan, Daniel (2015) , “Lat. gl?ria und der „glänzende Ruhm“ im Indogermanischen”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics (in German), volume 128, DOI:10.2307/44114681, pages 72–88

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• glorien

Noun

gloria m or f

1. definite feminine singular of glorie

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin gl?ria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??lo.?ja]

Noun

gloria f (plural glorias)

1. glory
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 19r.

     […] &? vieron la g?a de i??l dedios. Como huebra de blácor. &? de cristal. ¬ como color de los cielo^s módos […]

     […] and they saw the glory of the God of Israel, like a work of white and crystal, and like the color of realm of the heavens. […]

Related terms

• gloriar

Descendants

• Spanish: gloria

Portuguese

Noun

gloria f (plural glorias)

1. Obsolete spelling of glória

Verb

gloria

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of gloriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of gloriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lo?ja/, [??lo.?ja]

Etymology

From Old Spanish gloria, from Latin gl?ria.

Noun

gloria f (plural glorias)

1. glory

Derived terms

Anagrams

• gorila, girola, gíralo

Swedish

Noun

gloria c

1. a halo (on a saint)

   Synonyms: helgonskimmer, strålkrans

Declension

Related terms

References

• gloria in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• roliga

English

Etymology

From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin gl?ria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l???i/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??lo(?)?i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Noun

glory (countable and uncountable, plural glories)

1. Great beauty and splendor.
2. Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 1, p. 197,^[1]

     In this faire wize they traueild long yfere,

     Through many hard assayes, which did betide;

     Of which he honour still away did beare,

     And spred his glorie through all countries wide.

3. That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, “The First Eclogues,” [p. 92b],^[2]

     Deeme it no gloire [sic] to swell in tyrannie.

   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act II, Scene 2,^[3]

     As jewels lose their glory if neglected,

     So princes their renowns if not respected.
4. Worship or praise.
5. (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.

   Synonym: anticorona

6. Victory; success.
7. An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 13,^[5]

     Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.

8. (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
9. (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
   • c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), The Crowne of all Homers Workes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epigrams, London: John Bill, “A Hymne to Venus,” p. 106,^[6]

     […] But if thou declare

     The Secrets, truth; and art so mad to dare

     (In glory of thy fortunes) to approue,

     That rich-crownd Venus, mixt with thee in loue;

     Ioue (fir’d with my aspersion, so dispred)

     Will, with a wreakefull lightning, dart thee dead.

Synonyms

• (emanation of light proceeding from specially holy beings): halo
• praise
• worship
• fame
• honor
• honour

Related terms

Translations

Verb

glory (third-person singular simple present glories, present participle glorying, simple past and past participle gloried)

1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.
   • 1753, James Hervey, "A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753":

     In what the Apostle did glory?—He gloried in a Cross. ... [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.

   • 1891: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

     He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:

     When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory.

2. To boast; to be proud.
   • 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:

     For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.

3. (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
   • 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":

     Down in a casement sat,

     A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair

     And glossy-throated grace, Isolt the Queen.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

glory

1. Alternative form of glorie