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splendor
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)
- 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.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Rhinoceros got its skin"
- Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
- 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
- sheen, brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendor
- 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)
- splendor (brilliant brightness)
Descendants
- French: splendeur
- ? English: splendor, splendour
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (splendor)
Polish
Etymology
From Latin splendor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spl?n.d?r/
Noun
splendor m inan
- splendor (magnificent appearance, display or grandeur)
- privilege, honor
Declension
Further reading
- splendor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- splendor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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pride
English
Alternative forms
- pryde (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English pride, from Old English pr?de, pr?te (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English pr?d (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?a?d/, [?p???a?d]
- Rhymes: -a?d
- Homophone: pried
Noun
pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)
- The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
- (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- He took pride in his work.
- He had pride of ownership in his department.
- 1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
- 1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables
- Pride goeth before the fall.
- 1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables
- That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
- 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
- a bold peasantry, their country's pride
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
- to be in the pride of one's life.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
- A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.
- (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.
Synonyms
- (a sense of one's own worth): dignity; See also Thesaurus:pride
- (proud or disdainful behavior): conceit, disdain; See also Thesaurus:arrogance
- (lust; sexual desire): See also Thesaurus:lust
- (lamprey species): prid, sandpiper
Derived terms
- gay pride
- point of pride
- pride comes before a fall
- prideful
- pride of place
- pride parade
- prider
- Pride
Related terms
- proud
See also
- clowder, company of small felines
Translations
Verb
pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)
- (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
- 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.
- 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Derived terms
- prided
- priding
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pride”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- pried, re-dip, redip, riped
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