brilliance, shine, lustre · fragment · Strong reaction; scandal
çekim: çoğul éclats
köken: Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to…
aile: coup d'éclat, rire aux éclats, voler en éclats
köken: From either French lustre or Catalan llustre, from Italian lustro, derived from the verb lustrare. A French or Catalan intermediate is likely due to the change in the final vowel, typical of borrowings that are ultimately early Italianisms before the 16th century. Not attested in Old Spanish; first attested in Nebrija.
aile: azúcar de lustre
el lustre de mis zapatos, del metal, de los minerales
köken: Wasei kango from elements 魅(み) (mi, “charm, allure, fascination”) + 力(りょく) (-ryoku, “power”). First attested in 1911 in Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's short story 秘密(ひみつ) (Himitsu, “The Secret”) (see quotation).
splendor (magnificent appearance, display or grandeur) · privilege, honor
çekim: çoğul splendory · tamlayan splendoru
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *spln̥d-eh₁-der. Latin splendeō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin splendorlbor. Polish splendor Learned borrowing from Latin splendor.