scintillo
See also: scintillò
Italian
Verb
scintillo
- first-person singular present indicative of scintillare
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skɪnˈtɪl.loː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ʃin̪ˈt̪il.lo]
Verb
scintillō (present infinitive scintillāre, perfect active scintillāvī, supine scintillātum); first conjugation
- to scintillate, sparkle
Conjugation
Conjugation of scintillō (first conjugation)
Descendants
- Balkano-Romance:
- ⇒ Aromanian: scãntiljedz, scãntiljari
- ⇒ Romanian: scânteia
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: scintillare
- Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Old French: estinceler, estenceler
- Middle French: estinceller
- French: étinceler
- Middle French: estinceller
- ⇒ Old French: estinceler, estenceler
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → English: scintillate
- → French: scintiller
- → Portuguese: cintilar
- → Spanish: cintilar
References
- “scintillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scintillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scintillo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.