pulcro
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Classical Latin pulcher, pulchrum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcri, feminine plural pulcre)
- (obsolete, literary, rare) beautiful, fair
- Synonym: bello
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Mal dare e mal tener lo mondo pulcro
ha tolto loro, e posti a questa zuffa:
qual ella sia, parole non ci appulcro.- Wrong giving and wrong keeping has taken the fair world away from them, and placed them in this scuffle: whatever it be, I will not put words to embellish it.
References
[edit]- pulcro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pulcrō
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: pul‧cro
Adjective
[edit]pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pulchrum, accusative form of pulcher.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)
Further reading
[edit]- “pulcro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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