pulcro
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin pulcher, pulchrum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpul.kro/
- Rhymes: -ulkro
- Hyphenation: pùl‧cro
Adjective
pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcri, feminine plural pulcre)
- (obsolete, literary, rare) beautiful, fair
- Synonym: bello
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 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
- pulcro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpulkɾo/ [ˈpul.kɾo]
- Rhymes: -ulkɾo
- Syllabification: pul‧cro
Further reading
- “pulcro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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