clarissa

Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

clarissa (plural clarissas)

1. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
   • 2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:

     […] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more.

clarissa f (plural clarisse)

1. Poor Clare (a member of the Order of Saint Clare)

• Clarissa

clarissa (masculine plural clarissi, feminine plural clarisse)

1. (relational) of the Order of Saint Clare; Clarissan

• Clarissa

From Clara +‎ -issa (“-ess”), from Old Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klaˈris.sa/, [kɫ̪äˈrɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klaˈris.sa/, [kläˈrisːä]

clarissa f

1. (Medieval Latin) Poor Clare, a member of the Order of Saint Clare.

clarissa

1. inflection of clarissus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klaˈris.saː/, [kɫ̪äˈrɪs̠ːäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klaˈris.sa/, [kläˈrisːä]

clarissā

1. ablative feminine singular of clarissus