great, excellent, outstanding, brilliant (having great, above average capacity, skill) · great, excellent, outstanding (above average in quality, importance, significance)
çekim: karşılaştırma izcilāks · üstünlük visizcilākais
eş: lielisks, teicams
köken: Originally the past participle of a verb *izcilt, from cilt (“to rise”), still attested dialectally (cf. celties “to rise” from transitive celt “to raise”). The original meaning was thus “raised, risen (above others)” > “outstanding.”
aile: izcilnieks, izcilniece, izcilība
izcils zinātnieks
izcils sportists
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From Dutch briljant, from French brillant, from Medieval Latin as if *berilare (“to sparkle like a beryl or other precious stone”), from Latin berillus, beryllus (“a beryl, gem, eyeglass”), from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”). Doublet of berlian.