alluminare
Italian
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Verb
alluminàre (first-person singular present allumìno, first-person singular past historic alluminài, past participle alluminàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
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Verb
alluminàre (first-person singular present allùmino, first-person singular past historic alluminài, past participle alluminàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
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Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old French enluminer.
Verb
alluminàre (first-person singular present allùmino, first-person singular past historic alluminài, past participle alluminàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive, archaic or literary)
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Etymology 4
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin allūmināre.
Verb
alluminàre (first-person singular present allùmino, first-person singular past historic alluminài, past participle alluminàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, poetic, archaic or Tuscan) to illuminate
- c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “La luce, l'ombra e i colori”, in G. Fumagalli, editor, Leonardo Prosatore, scelta di scritti Vinciani, Milan: Albrighi, published 1915, →OCLC, page 219:
- Ogni colore è più bello nella sua parte alluminata che nell’ombrosa, e questo nasce che il lume vivifica e dà vera notizia della qualità de’ colori, e l’ombra amorza e oscura la medesima bellezza e impedisce la notizia d’esso colore
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