coruscate
English
WOTD – 3 March 2006
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The coruscating lights of the aurora borealis
Alternative forms
- corruscate (dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coruscō (“I flash”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹəskeɪt/, /ˈkɔːɹəskeɪt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- enPR: kôrʹə-skāt, kŏrʹə-skāt
Verb
coruscate (third-person singular simple present coruscates, present participle coruscating, simple past and past participle coruscated)
- (intransitive) To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.
- Synonyms: glean, glimmer, glisten, glitter, radiate, scintillate, sheen, shine, sparkle, twinkle
- (intransitive, figurative) To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
- 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:
- For truth and tenderness do more / Than coruscating metaphor.
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Related terms
- coruscation
Translations
to reflect in flashes; to sparkle
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Anagrams
- accouters, accoutres, cocurates, court case
Italian
Verb
coruscate
- inflection of coruscare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
coruscate f pl
- feminine plural of coruscato
Anagrams
- stracuoce
Latin
Verb
coruscāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of coruscō