refulgir

From Latin refulgeō.

refulgir (first-person singular present refulgeixo, first-person singular preterite refulgí, past participle refulgit)

1. (intransitive) to shine

   Synonym: resplendir

   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 3, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     El nostre sol feia que refulgissin amb coloraines verdes i vermelles.

     Our sun made them shine in bright reds and greens.

• fulgir
• refulgència

• “refulgir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

From Latin refulgeō.

• Hyphenation: re‧ful‧gir

refulgir (first-person singular present refuljo, first-person singular preterite refulgi, past participle refulgido)

1. to shine, to glean

   (figuratively) to distinguish oneself, to excel

Borrowed from Latin refulgeō.

• IPA^(key): /refulˈxiɾ/ [re.fulˈxiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ful‧gir

refulgir (first-person singular present refuljo, first-person singular preterite refulgí, past participle refulgido)

1. (formal) to shine, to glean (usually said of the moon) [from 15th c.]

   Synonyms: rielar, resplandecer, titilar

   • 1874, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, La Alpujarra:

     figuraos la indecisa claridad de la Luna, mezclada con las sombras de la tierra, refulgiendo en la despejada atmósfera y reverberando en el lejano mar

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   • 1904, Pío Baroja, La lucha por la vida:

     y bajo el cielo azul de Prusia todo palpitaba y refulgía y temblaba a la luz del sol con una vibración de llama.

     and under the blue Prussian sky everything was throbbing and glimmering and shaking in the sunlight with a flame-like rhythm

• “refulgir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024