luminare

luminare f

1. alternative form of luminari

• IPA^(key): /lu.miˈna.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi‧nà‧re

Inherited from Late Latin lūmināre (“star” ← “light” ← “opening that lets light in”).

luminare m (plural luminari)

1. (archaic) a shining heavenly body (especially said of the Sun and the Moon)
   • 1754, Niccolò Maria Bona, “Panegirico in onore de' SS. Cosma, e Damiano [Panegyric in honor of St. Cosmas and Damian]”, in Panegirici ed orazioni [Panegyrics and Prayers]‎^[1], Venice: Giovanni Tevernin, page 89:

     maraviglia non è, ſe fino da' primieri lor anni […] ſì ſplendidamente eſſi folgoreggiaſſero, come i due luminari del Cielo

     it's no wonder that, ever since their early years, they were so magnificently blazing like the two lights of the sky [the Sun and the Moon]

2. (figurative) one who has achieved success in their field; leading light, luminary
3. (archaeology) a vertical opening in a catacomb meant to let light and air inside
4. (archaic, rare) illumination, luminary

   Synonyms: illuminazione, lume, luminaria

Inherited from Latin lūmināre (“to illuminate, brighten”).

luminàre (first-person singular present lùmino, first-person singular past historic luminài, past participle luminàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (archaic, transitive) to illuminate, lighten, light up

   Synonym: illuminare

   Antonyms: abbuiare, offuscare, oscurare

   • c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, G. Laterza & Figli, published 1941, page 121:

     «O chiaro Febo, per cui luminato ¶ è tutto il mondo […] »

     "O bright Phoebus, by whom the whole world is lightened […] "

2. (literary, rare, intransitive) to shine, glow [auxiliary avere]

   Synonym: risplendere

   • 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Novelle della Pescara‎^[2], published 2016, page 285:

     Una specie di mollezza esotica pareva spargersi nel tramonto. Sorgevano, nella fantasia popolare, le rive favoleggiate e luminavano.

     A sort of exotic softness seemed to be spreading in the sunset. In the popular imagination, the fantasized-upon coasts were rising and shining.

• mulinare, mulinerà, numerali

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuː.mɪˈnaː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lu.miˈnaː.re]

From lūmen (“light”) + -āris.

lūmināre n (genitive lūmināris); third declension

1. (literally) That which gives light; enlightener
2. a window-shutter, window (that lets light in)
3. (Late Latin, in the plural) light, lamp (such as those lighted in churches in honor of martyrs)
4. (Late Latin, in the plural) A luminary; especially a heavenly body.

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• lūmen
• lūminō
• lūminōsus

• “luminare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luminare”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lūmināre

1. inflection of lūminō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

From lumina +‎ -re.

luminare f (plural luminări)

1. act of lighting, illuminating, shining