rutilo

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.ti.lo/
• Rhymes: -utilo
• Hyphenation: rù‧ti‧lo

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin rutilus (“having a warm or yellowish red colo(u)r; strawberry blonde”, adjective), of uncertain origin.

rutilo (feminine rutila, masculine plural rutili, feminine plural rutile) (literary)

1. having a vibrant red colo(u)r
   • 1604, Gio[vanni] Soranzo, “Libro primo [First book]”, in Dell'Adamo‎^[1], Genua: Giuseppe Pavoni, page 24:

     A cotesto tuo crespo, e lucido oro,
     che ſembra fiamma rutila e ſottile,
     Altro non manca, che ’l diuin decoro

     [A cotesto tuo crespo e lucido oro,
     che sembra fiamma rutila e sottile,
     altro non manca che 'l divin decoro]

     This wavy, bright gold of yours, which looks like a red, thin flame, lacks nothing but divine dignity

2. (rare) flushed (of a face)
3. (rare) reddened (of the sunset sky)
4. shining, glowing
   • 1807, Vincenzo Monti, [untitled poem]; republished as “Ode genetliaca in occasione del parto di S[ua] A[ltezza] I[mperiale] la Vice-regina d'Italia, e del decreto 14. marzo su i licei convitti [Birth ode, on the occasion of the childbirth of Her Imperial Majesty the Vice-queen of Italy, and of the decree of March 14 on boarding schools]”, in Opere del cavaliere Vincenzo Monti, volume 2, Bologna: Stamperia delle Muse, 1827, page 152:

     E della luce il provvido
     Eterno padre e fonte
     Di vegetanti palpiti
     Empie la valle e il monte,
     E ne’ corpi col rutilo
     Strale la vita saettando va.

     And the provident father, source of vegetable throbs, fills the valley and the mountain with light, and life darts around inside the bodies with its shining arrow.

5. (rare) dazzling (of thunderbolt)

rutilo m (plural rutili)

1. (uncountable) vermilion (colo(u)r)
2. (ichthyology) roach
3. (mineralogy) rutile

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rutilo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rutilare

• rutilo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• “rutilo”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 17 robb–schi, UTET, 1994, page 280

• tuorli

From rutilus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrʊ.tɪ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈruː.t̪i.lo]

rutilō (present infinitive rutilāre, perfect active rutilāvī, supine rutilātum); first conjugation

1. to redden

• Catalan: rutilar
• Galician: rutilar
• Portuguese: rutilar
• Spanish: rutilar

• “rutilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rutilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rutilo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• rútila

• Hyphenation: ru‧ti‧lo

rutilo m (plural rutilos)

1. intense shine, brightness
2. (mineralogy) rutile (mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide)

• IPA^(key): /ruˈtilo/ [ruˈt̪i.lo]

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• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: ru‧ti‧lo

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rutilo m (plural rutilos)

1. rutile (mineral)
2. roach (fish)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rutilo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rutilar

• “rutilo”, 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