different between pageantry vs splendor

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæd??nt?i/

Etymology

pageant +? -ry

Noun

pageantry (countable and uncountable, plural pageantries)

1. A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
   • 1609: William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)

     That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry, what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.

   • 1849: Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

     The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, ...

   • 2019, Barney Ronay, Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam (in The Guardian, 8 May 2019)[1]

     Anfield had been the usual portable pageantry of flags and banners and songs before kick-off. With the sky still blue above the away end the Barcelona fans stood and watched and took pictures and joined in the pre-match round of You’ll Never Walk Alone.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• splendour (British, Canadian)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?spl?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?spl?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

splendor (usually uncountable, plural splendors) (American spelling)

1. Great light, luster or brilliance.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Rhinoceros got its skin"

     Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.

2. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.

3. Great fame or glory.

Usage notes

Splendor is the standard spelling in American English. Splendour is correct in modern British and Commonwealth English.

Translations

Anagrams

• speldron

Latin

Etymology

From splende? +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?splen.dor/, [?s?p???n?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?splen.dor/, [?spl?n?d??r]

Noun

splendor m (genitive splend?ris); third declension

1. sheen, brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendor
2. renown, fame

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• splendor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• splendor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

• esplendor
• esplendur
• splandor
• splendur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin splendor.

Noun

splendor f (oblique plural splendors, nominative singular splendor, nominative plural splendors)

1. splendor (brilliant brightness)

Descendants

• French: splendeur
• ? English: splendor, splendour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (splendor)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin splendor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spl?n.d?r/

Noun

splendor m inan

1. splendor (magnificent appearance, display or grandeur)
2. privilege, honor

Declension

Further reading

• splendor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• splendor in Polish dictionaries at PWN