Illustreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

illustre (comparative more illustre, superlative most illustre)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of illustrious.

語源 2

From 中期英語 illustren, from Middle French illustrer (French illustrer), from Latin illūstrāre (“to illustrate”).

動詞

illustre (third-person singular simple present illustres, present participle illustring, simple past and past participle illustred) (transitive, obsolete)

1. To illuminate (something).
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Fift Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 140:

     But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.

2. To make (someone) illustrious.

派生語

• illustrated (“made illustrious”, adjective)

参照

アナグラム

• Tulliers, illuster

参照

• “illustre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press