resplendeo Latin · revision 36330

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la splendeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛsˈpɫɛn.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [resˈplɛn.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''resplendeō''' (present infinitive resplendēre, perfect active resplenduī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|splendeō|t1=back, again|t2=to shine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|splendeō]] to [[ine-pro|*splnd(ʰ)-eh₁-|t=to be manifest]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is a poetic word,^(Lewis & Short 1879) first found in Virgil:^(Köbler 2010) ''fulvā resplendent fragmina harēnā'', “the fragments glitter on the tawny sand” (''Aeneid'' 12.741).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The basic sense is shining with reflected light.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Manilius uses it of stars and Hyginus of the sun that still lights the far side of a plain,^(OLD 2012) and Seneca and Silius Italicus also have it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Seneca applies it figuratively, of people who shine with the light of their ancestors,^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) and Claudian speaks of the glory of Mars shining out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Christian Latin the Vulgate uses it of a face shining (Matthew 17:2),^(Lewis & Short 1879) the perfect ''resplenduit'' appears in the First Book of Maccabees,^(Georges 1913) and Ambrose writes of a care for honour that shone out amid the ashes of a ruined homeland.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of fragments glittering on the sand.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–AD 65 – Seneca uses it figuratively of the light of ancestors.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To shine brightly with reflected light, [[m|en|glitter]], [[m|en|gleam]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of a heavenly body)'' To radiate light, shine brightly.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To shine out, be [[m|en|resplendent]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[resplendentia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}