different between splendor vs brilliancy

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

English

Etymology

brilliant +? -cy or brilliance +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??lj?nsi/
• Hyphenation: bril?lian?cy

Noun

brilliancy (countable and uncountable, plural brilliancies)

1. A shining quality; brilliance.
2. An act of being brilliant.

3. (chess) A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
   • 2015, Michael Hearst, Extraordinary People: A Semi-Comprehensive Guide to Some of the World's Most Fascinating Individuals, Chronicle Books (?ISBN), page 38

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