gleam

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
5. (countable, obsolete) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
6. (obsolete, uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

Verb

1. (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
2. (intransitive) To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To be strongly but briefly apparent.

Verb

Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

Concetti

brillare

barlume

risplendere

lucere

luce

splendere

folgorare

luccicare

❇️

rilucere

lucciolare

alone

rifulgere

lustreggiare

scintillare

spiraglio

splendore

sprazzo

chiarore

corruscare

❇️

coruscare

sinonimi

shine

glitter

flash

sparkle

❇️

glow

glisten

glint

twinkle

glimmer

shimmer

light

beam

flare

flicker

glare

glance

ray

scintillate

blaze

brighten

radiate

gleaming

be bright

brightness

coruscate

flame

spark

ardor

ardour

shine forth

fervor

burnish

lambency

fervour

shaft

fervor

ardour

ardor

glimpse

brilliancy

reflex

radiance

reflect

brilliance

fervour

lustre

passion

reflection

spangle

fulminate

Traduzioni

lueur

glänzen

luire

resplandecer

Schimmer

brillar

relucir

ακτίδα

destello

Schein

scheinen

strahlen

fulgurar

briller

λάμπω

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡliːm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: glem

Ereditato da inglese antico: glǣm

Affine tedesco antico alto: glīmen

Affine tedesco medio alto: glīme

Affine Old Saxon: glīmo

Ereditato da inglese medio: glemen

In summary

From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”).
Cognates
* German Low German Gleem (“shine, luster, gloss”)
* Faroese glæma (“gleam, glimmer”)
* Old High German glīmen (“to glow, shine”); gleimo, glīmo (“glowworm”) (Middle High German glīme, gleime)
* Old Saxon glīmo (“brightness”)