clarore
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin clārōrem, derived from clārus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klaˈro.re/
- Rhymes: -ore
- Hyphenation: cla‧ró‧re
Noun
clarore m (plural clarori)
- (obsolete) glow, brightness
- Synonyms: chiarore, luminosità
- 13th century, Guittone d'Arezzo, Non mi credea aver tanto fallato, collected in Le rime di Guittone d'Arezzo, Bari: Laterza, published 1940, page 198, lines 1–3:
- Non mi credea tanto aver fallato,
ca mi celasse mostrar so clarore
la rosa del giardino […]- I did not think I had done so much wrong that the rose of the garden would stop showing me its brightness
Related terms
Further reading
- clarore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana