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)

  1. (obsolete, literary, rare) beautiful, fair
    Synonym: bello
    • mid 1300smid 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

Adjective

pulcrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pulcer

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulchrum.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpuw.kɾu/ [ˈpuʊ̯.kɾu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpuw.kɾo/ [ˈpuʊ̯.kɾo]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpul.kɾu/ [ˈpuɫ.kɾu]

  • Hyphenation: pul‧cro

Adjective

pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)

  1. (poetic) pretty, neat

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pulchrum, accusative form of pulcher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpulkɾo/ [ˈpul.kɾo]
  • Rhymes: -ulkɾo
  • Syllabification: pul‧cro

Adjective

pulcro (feminine pulcra, masculine plural pulcros, feminine plural pulcras)

  1. tidy, neat
  2. (poetic) pretty, beautiful

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